Borer may refer to:

Insects

Common furniture beetle The common furniture beetle or common house borer (''Anobium punctatum'') is a woodboring beetle originally from Europe but now distributed worldwide. In the larval stage it bores in wood and feeds upon it. Adult ''Anobium punctatum'' measure in ...

, also known as the common house borer *

Shoot borer ''Sesamia grisescens'', the pink sugarcane borer, pink stalk borer, shoot borer, sugarcane borer or ramu shoot borer, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Warren in 1911. It is found in Papua New Guinea, Seram, ...

Stem borer A stemborer (stem borer) is any insect larva, or arthropod, that bores into plant stems. However the term most frequently refers among the Coleoptera to the larva of certain longhorn beetles such as '' Dorysthenes buqueti'' and those of the genus '' ...

Twig borer Twig borer refers to a number of species of beetles and moths that chew holes into small branches of trees and shrubs. Many of these insects are agricultural pests. Animals that are called twig borers include: Beetles Family Bostrichidae *'' Amp ...

Moths

* ''Chilo'' (moth) *'' Diatraea grandiosella'', southwestern corn borer *'' Podosesia syringae'', ash borer or lilac borer *''

Melittia cucurbitae The squash vine borer (''Melittia cucurbitae'') is a diurnal species of sesiid moth. The moth is often mistaken for a bee or wasp because of its movements, and the bright orange hind leg scales. The females typically lay their eggs at the base ...

'', squash vine borer, a pest of cucurbit vines *''

Ostrinia ''Ostrinia'' is a genus of moths in the family Crambidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. Several of them, including the European corn borer, are agricultural pests. Species *'' Ostrinia avarialis'' Amsel, 1970 *'' Ostrinia dorsivittata'' (Mo ...

'', pests of maize and other plants

Beetles

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Cosmopolites sordidus ''Cosmopolites sordidus'', commonly known as the banana root borer, banana borer, or banana weevil, is a species of weevil in the family Curculionidae. It is a pest of banana cultivation and has a cosmopolitan distribution, being found in all pa ...

'' (banana stemborer), a true weevil in genus ''

Cosmopolites ''Cosmopolites'' is a genus of true weevil in the Dryophthorinae Dryophthorinae is a weevil subfamily within the family Curculionidae. While it is not universally accepted as distinct from other curculionid subfamilies, at least one major ...

'' * Ptinidae, a family of beetles, especially: ** ''

Anobium punctatum The common furniture beetle or common house borer (''Anobium punctatum'') is a woodboring beetle originally from Europe but now distributed worldwide. In the larval stage it bores in wood and feeds upon it. Adult ''Anobium punctatum'' measure in ...

'', common furniture borer *

Woodboring beetle The term woodboring beetle encompasses many species and families of beetles whose larval or adult forms eat and destroy wood (i.e., are xylophagous). In the woodworking industry, larval stages of some are sometimes referred to as woodworms. The t ...

Devices

Cork borer A cork borer, often used in a chemistry or biology laboratory, is a metal tool for cutting a hole in a cork or rubber stopper to insert glass tubing. Cork borers usually come in a set of nested sizes along with a solid pin for pushing the remov ...

, a tool of the chemistry laboratory *

Raise borer A raise borer is a machine used in underground mining, to excavate a circular hole between two levels of a mine without the use of explosives. The raise borer is set up on the upper level of the two levels to be connected, on an evenly laid platf ...

, a mining machine *

Instep borer The instep borer was a putative medieval German instrument of torture Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons such as punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, or ...

, an instrument of torture * Tunnel boring machine * Reamer, a rotary cutting tool used in metalworking *

Drill A drill is a tool used for making round holes or driving fasteners. It is fitted with a bit, either a drill or driverchuck. Hand-operated types are dramatically decreasing in popularity and cordless battery-powered ones proliferating due to ...

Other

Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer The Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer is a fictional animal invented by ''Discover'' magazine as an April Fool's Day joke. A short article on the Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer first appeared in the April 1995 issue of ''Discover'' magazine. The article was w ...

, a fictional mammal *

Borer Lake Borer Lake is a lake in Le Sueur County, in the U.S. state of Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 mi ...

, United States * בורר ("borer"), Sorting/Purification, one of the activities prohibited in Jewish law on Shabbat {{disambiguation Animal common name disambiguation pages