Citations:boring


 * 1915, Mycologia, page 124:
 * timber by insects on the one hand and fungi on the other have been pointed out by several mycologists and entomologists . There are without doubt many fungi which follow the borings of insects . Cryptoporus volvatus is an example of ...
 * 1935, Pamphlets on Conservation of Natural Resources, page 107:
 * INSECTS . Insects cause damage through the leaves and shoots, by girdling , and through borings . Leaves are eaten off the trees , twigs and buds deformed , or the wood is tunneled with borings . Insects making channels in the inner ...
 * 1999, David D. Gillette, Vertebrate Paleontology in Utah, Utah Geological Survey (ISBN 9781557916341), page 198:
 * Gastropod drill holes commonly occur on clam and snail shells (Carriker, 1969; Jones, 1969), but are more cylindrical and conical than cup-shaped, and exhibit microstructures that differ from those found in the bone borings. Insects ...
 * 2005, David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel, Evolution of the Insects, Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9781107268777), page 54:
 * The earliest possible beetle borings are in Permian glos- sopterids. The earliest definitive beetle borings are from the Triassic of Europe and Arizona, and later in the Mesozoic beetle borings become more diverse with the radiation of ...
 * 2007, A.P. Rasnitsyn, Donald L. Quicke, History of Insects, Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9781402000263), page 318:
 * Insects are the most diverse and common wood-borers I tunnels in dead wood may be produced by other animals as well (e by worms, oribatid mites and marine borrowing mollusc Occasionally structures similar to animal borings may appear a: ...
 * 2012, N.M. Collins, The Conservation of Insects and Their Habitats, Academic Press (ISBN 9780323149303), page 180:
 * ... lives only under very thick, dry bark where it feeds on spider webs and the husks of insects caught in them. ... of bark (leading to evaporative cooling) and the degree of ventilation of the wood created by the borings of insects.