twig girdler

noun

1. girdler2

Word History and Origins

Origin of twig girdler¹

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

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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