The phrase "a borer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an insect or tool that bores holes, typically in wood or other materials.
Example: "The carpenter used a borer to create precise holes for the dowels."
Alternatives: "a drill" or "a wood-boring insect".
The information is concise: "A borer's hole and frass (poop) are obvious on this asparagus stem".
Then, with the help of a borer four cups were made in each plate.
At the basis of this coral another non-indigenous species is very often found, the mytilid Leiosolenus aristatus, a borer bivalve that perforates the calcareous base of Tubastraea spp. and seems to be profiting from the invasive nature of its coral host.
The wells were bored with a borer and 0.1 mL of purified protein (200 μg/mL) was added to respective wells.
a Borer and Corley 2006 [ 31] bVan der Kolk et al 2002 [ 32] The use of the Telemetric ECG was well tolerated by the study population and produced ECG traces of diagnostic quality.
Dr. Davis needed an artificial diet, and he tweaked a Texas A & M moth diet made of wheat germ and casein, a milk protein, to create a borer-friendly mix that endures.
In both cases, leaf disks (0.8 cm2) from infected plants were removed with a cork borer during a 12 day period post-inoculation, macerated in 0.85% NaCl with a mortar and pestle.
The newly hatched larva will grow as a fruit borer, excavating a tunnel in the mesocarp until pupation.
Circular sections were taken using a cork borer with a diameter of 7 mm, and were later weighed.
Mice were sacrificed one hour after xylene application and circular sections were taken, using a cork borer with a diameter of 3 mm, and weighed.
Two plant replicates for each genotype were used and for each leaf 10 discs of 1 cm diameter were excised with a cork borer on a PVC pad.
