sugarcane borer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sugarcane borer
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Once hatched and grown, the insects inject their own eggs into those of the sugarcane borer - a moth that in its caterpillar stage eats valuable plants - preventing the pest from hatching.
From BBC • Jan. 22, 2013
When a wholesale application of heptachlor was made to the farmlands in Louisiana in 1957, the result was the unleashing of one of the worst enemies of the sugarcane crop — the sugarcane borer.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
The corn borer and the sugarcane borer are also being tested.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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