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Cork borers usually come in a set of nested sizes along with a solid pin for pushing the removed cork (or rubber) out of the borer. The individual borer is a hollow tube, tapered at the edge, generally with some kind of handle at the other end. A separate device is a cork borer sharpener used to hone the cutting edge to more easily slice the cork.
Odoiporus longicollis, commonly known as banana stem weevil or banana pseudostem borer, is a species of weevil found in South Asia and South East Asia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Distribution
Chilo suppressalis, the Asiatic rice borer or striped rice stemborer, is a moth of the family Crambidae. [1] It is a widespread species, known from Iran , [ 2 ] India , Sri Lanka , China , eastern Asia, Japan , Taiwan , Malaysia to the Pacific .
Related to biological pest control is the technique of introducing sterile individuals into the native population of some organism. This technique is widely practised with insects: a large number of males sterilized by radiation are released into the environment, which proceed to compete with the native males for females. Those females that ...
בורר ("borer"), Sorting/Purification, one of the activities prohibited in Jewish law on Shabbat Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Borer .
Cactoblastis cactorum, the cactus moth, South American cactus moth or nopal moth, is native to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil.It is one of five species in the genus Cactoblastis that inhabit South America, where many parasitoids, predators and pathogens control the expansion of the moths' population.
Bt cotton was created through the addition of genes encoding toxin crystals in the Cry group of endotoxin. [1] When insects attack and eat the cotton plant the Cry toxins or crystal protein are dissolved due to the high pH level of the insect's stomach.
Some species of braconids are parasitoids of Ostrinia furnacalis (the Asian corn borer, a lepidopteran moth known for being a pest of maize in East Asia), the African sugarcane borer (a moth commonly found in sub-Saharan Africa), [10] the butterfly Danaus chrysippus in Ghana, [11] and Liriomyza trifolii (the American serpentine leafminer) and ...