Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of or characterized by boring wood; having the habits of a wood-borer: as, the wood-boring shrimps; wood-boring beetles. See
gribble , Limnoria, Cheluridæ, Lymexylon, ship-worm, and teredo.
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Examples
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Or, the gribble, an even smaller wood-boring marine crustacean, whose unique ability to digest cellulose and turn it into energy-rich sugars could provide a key to converting waste products into biofuel.
Peter Seligmann: America's Commitment to Nature: Another Endangered Species? Peter Seligmann 2010
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Or, the gribble, an even smaller wood-boring marine crustacean, whose unique ability to digest cellulose and turn it into energy-rich sugars could provide a key to converting waste products into biofuel.
Peter Seligmann: America's Commitment to Nature: Another Endangered Species? Peter Seligmann 2010
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Or, the gribble, an even smaller wood-boring marine crustacean, whose unique ability to digest cellulose and turn it into energy-rich sugars could provide a key to converting waste products into biofuel.
Peter Seligmann: America's Commitment to Nature: Another Endangered Species? Peter Seligmann 2010
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Defoliation by the forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria) and drought in the 1960s and 1980s led to reduced growth and predisposed some stands to secondary damage by wood-boring insects and fungal pathogens.
Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic 2009
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The particular insects involved in large-scale boreal outbreaks include bark and wood-boring beetles, defoliating insects (often Lepidoptera – moths and butterflies), and insects that attack roots and cones.
Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic 2009
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Taxa most likely to expand into tundra are boreal taxa that currently exist in river valleys and could spread into the uplands, or animal groups such as wood-boring beetles that are presently excluded due to a lack of food resources.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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These groups include wood-boring insects and wooddecaying fungi and their predators [25], as well as mammals and birds that specialize on tree seeds and leaves.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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This, explained Barry, was a goat moth tree, host to the big wood-boring larvae; these live in galleries inside the sapwood for four years before pupating and emerging as adult moths.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Zoological studies, especially on wood-boring insects, begun in 1929 by his successor, Professor Karpinski, were extended by Professor Dehnel.
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Tree health increases host resistance to beetle attack: healthy spruce trees can successfully resist moderate numbers of beetle attacks by opposing the wood-boring activity of females entering the tree to lay eggs with pitch under high turgor pressure [9].
Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic 2009
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