gribbles

The suit seeks to force the trust, and by extension taxpayers, to spend "at least $37.5 million" repairing damage its piers have sustained over the past two decades from small marine borers known as gribbles and teredos.

NYT > Home Page By CHARLES V. BAGLI 2012

The suit seeks to force the trust, and by extension taxpayers, to spend "at least $37.5 million" repairing damage its piers have sustained over the past two decades from small marine borers known as gribbles and teredos.

NYT > Home Page By CHARLES V. BAGLI 2012

And there is another problem: marine organisms called gribbles and toredos are eating away at the timber platform, increasing the wall's vulnerability to an earthquake.

NYT > Home Page 2009

But decades of wear - including attack on the timber by marine borer "gribbles" and damage from the 2001 Nisqually Quake - have weakened the structure to the point of serious danger.

The Seattle Times 2010

But decades of wear - including attack on the timber by marine borer "gribbles" and damage from the 2001 Nisqually Quake - have weakened the structure to the point of serious danger.

The Seattle Times 2010

What were the all the xylophages and gribbles doing during that voyage? wamba

Pity the poor inverts - The Panda's Thumb 2010

As they gnaw their way through the outer layers of driftwood, the gribbles and shipworms leave more than half of it undigested, and reduce it to the fine wood powder that sinks into the mud of estuaries as the food known to the marine biologists as micro-detritus.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The first of these are the gribbles, responsible for the labyrinthine galleries of tunnels that worm their way through the surface of so much driftwood.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Deconstructed by gribbles and shipworms, it is a major source of food for marine animals and plants.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Deconstructed by gribbles and shipworms, it is a major source of food for marine animals and plants.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Another species, crustaceans called gribbles, were also eating the wood.

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