Apple tree borer
also called flatheaded apple tree borer. the larva of a metallic wood-boring beetle, chrysobothris femorata, that bores into the wood of apple and other fruit trees.
also called roundheaded apple tree borer. the larva of a long-horned beetle, saperda candida, that bores into the wood of apple and other fruit trees.
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