What is another word for borers?

Pronunciation: [bˈɔːɹəz] (IPA)

Borers are pests that bore into trees, plants and other living organisms, causing damage and often leading to death. There are various synonyms that can be used to describe such pests, including wood-boring insects, tree borers, bark beetles, woodworms, and carpenter ants. These pests can be found in different types of environments and can cause varying degrees of damage. While some species are attracted to trees that are already weakened or diseased, others will attack even healthy trees. Prevention and control methods for borers include using insecticides, maintaining healthy trees, and removing infested trees to prevent further spread of the pests.

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Usage examples for Borers

The ceiling, made of stout white calico, to shelter from snakes and the continual dust from the wood borers, was suspended from the rafters like the roof of a marquee tent.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
And the well-borers had been obliged to stop their work.
"Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter"
Lawrence L. Lynch
Possessing as we do explosives and rock-borers with which to break a passage through mountains and to blast rocky embankments, we can hardly understand how a people, with such limited mechanical appliances as then existed, can have surmounted the obstacles that presented themselves to their progress.
"Roumania Past and Present"
James Samuelson

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