shot-hole borer

shot-hole borer
noun
: a small bark beetle (Scolytus rugulosus) that attacks orchard fruit trees and kills the bark of small branches and twigs; broadly : any of several other beetles of the family Scolytidae attacking trees or shrubs (as the beetle Xyleborus fornicatus that attacks the tea plant)

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