twig girdler
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of twig girdler
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Example Sentences
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This species of twig girdler also attacks the apple, pear, persimmon, elm, and other kinds of trees, and with those like the apple, with a soft and brittle wood, the girdled twigs are frequently broken off by the winds; but this rarely occurs with the hickories, and we can usually find the stumps remaining on the trees years after the beetles have emerged.
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It is also subject to shuck-worm and twig girdler injury.
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Several species of borers are found attacking the trunks, the twig girdler severing the tips of twigs, the shuck worm and case-bearer affecting the husk, and the pecan weevil affecting the nuts.
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The twig girdler in the beetle stage feeds rather freely on the bark of twigs.
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The tree has been crippled by the twig girdler this year.
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