title: Borer
text: # Borer
  
  Borer may refer to:
  
  ## Insects
  
  * Stem borer
  * Twig borer
  * Shoot borer
  
  ### Moths
  
  * Chilo (moth)
  * Diatraea grandiosella, southwestern corn borer
  * Podosesia syringae, ash borer or lilac borer
  * Melittia cucurbitae, squash vine borer, a pest of cucurbit vines
  * Ostrinia, pests of maize and other plants
  
  ### Beetles
  
  * Cosmopolites sordidus (banana stemborer), a true weevil in genus Cosmopolites
  * Ptinidae, a family of beetles, especially:
     * Anobium punctatum, common furniture borer
  * Woodboring beetles
  
  ## Devices
  
  * Cork borer, a tool of the chemistry laboratory
  * Raise borer, a mining machine
  * Instep borer, an instrument of torture
  * Tunnel boring machine
  * Reamer, a rotary cutting tool used in metalworking
  * Drill
  
  ## Other
  
  * Hotheaded Naked Ice Borer, a fictional mammal
  * Borer Lake, United States
  * בורר ("borer"), Sorting/Purification, one of the activities prohibited in Jewish law on Shabbat
  