peach tree borer

noun

: a blue-black clearwing moth (Synanthedon exitiosa synonym Sanninoidea exitiosa) with the female having an orange band on the abdomen and whose white brown-headed larva bores in the wood of stone fruit trees (such as the peach)

Examples of peach tree borer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

He’s also had to remove about a dozen stone fruit trees this year because of damage from a beetle known as the peach tree borer. —Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022

First week: If necessary, second spray for peach tree borer and/or peach twig borer. —oregonlive, 1 Aug. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1850, in the meaning defined above