apple borer

noun7

1. •
   Any beetle or moth that bores into the trunks of apple and other fruit trees as larvae.
2. •
   a roundheaded apple borer (Saperda candida, syn. Saperda bivittata)
3. •
   a flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata)
4. •
   a red-belted clearwing, apple clearwing moth (Synanthedon myopaeformis)
5. •
   an apple stem borer (Apriona cinerea)
6. •
   an apple twig borer (Amphicerus bicaudatus)
7. •
   an apple trunk borer (Coryphodema tristis)