Burrowing insect

Usage examples of borer.

At least the borer was where she had left it last, carefully secured to its storage stand.

The borer, really just a pocket fusion torch, worked by vaporizing and ionizing a small percentage of the rock.

Her helmet lamp and the occasional dazzling flare from the borer were the only light.

Coyote retreated back up her tunnel with the borer, glad to be done with it.

The Gopher borer sat hunched down on the surface outside the dome, and the dozers were still clearing the huge masses of pulverized rock the Gopher had heaved back toward the surface.

It is much more important, you see, than measuring nutrient levels and concocting chemical formulae for the annihilation of borer beetles.

When you find it, slice the stem upward from the hole to find the fat, well-fed borer and remove it with tweezers or a small crochet hook.

The only nice thing about these little worms is that, unlike the corn borer, they enter the corn at the tip, and mostly only one worm inhabits an ear.

The Japanese beetle, the citrous scale, the chestnut blight, and the elm borer spread to every corner of the world, and from one forgotten pesthole in Borneo, leprosy, long imagined extinct, reappeared.

June is the month of all months for the prudent orchardist to go thus armed, for the apple-tree borer is abroad in the land.

In many areas they have become one of the most effective, as well as safest, ways to take care of pest problems like cutworms, armyworms, root maggots, borers, Wireworms and cabbage white caterpillars.

These borers often attack at a fork and their tunnel entrances are covered with a coating of droppings held together with silk webbing.

Worms, viruses, and Trojan horses would be their gifts to Grandmother, and they would leave explosive blocks, borers, and scramblers to infect the remaining data.

She nicked out flat stones to make a deeper well for fat for lamps, and she dried new moss wicks, knapped a new set of knives, scrapers, saws, borers, and axes, searched the seashore for shells to make spoons, ladles, and small dishes.

They had a handful of stones which they knapped quickly to make knives and borers, and with these they worked the food they had managed to gather during the day within a few hundred meters of the hut.