apple borer

== English == === Noun === apple borer (plural apple borers) Any beetle or moth that bores into the trunks of apple and other fruit trees as larvae, including: a roundheaded apple borer (Saperda candida, syn. Saperda bivittata) a flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata) a red-belted clearwing, apple clearwing moth (Synanthedon myopaeformis) an apple stem borer (Apriona cinerea) an apple twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus) an apple trunk borer (Coryphodema tristis) === References === “apple borer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.