apple borer

English

Noun

apple borer (plural apple borers)

1. Any beetle or moth that bores into the trunks of apple and other fruit trees as larvae
   1. a roundheaded apple borer (Saperda candida, syn. Saperda bivittata)
   2. a flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata)
   3. a red-belted clearwing, apple clearwing moth (Synanthedon myopaeformis)

References

• “apple borer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• apple borer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia