A diverse group of insects representing multiple orders, families, genera, and species employ wood-boring as a life history strategy. Consequently, the wood-boring strategy must offer some type of advantage to have been adopted so widely in the Class Insecta. Some of these advantages likely include protection from natural enemies, reduced competition for food resources, and a favorable microclimate for growth, development, and reproduction. Some wood-borers have further developed strategies for avoiding competition by partitioning their food resources in a number of ways, such as host specificity, timing of attack, condition of host, host tissue attacked (roots, trunk [bark, phloem, xylem], branch, leaves), and host age. Unfortunately for nursery and landscape managers, a number of these wood-boring insects are also important pests of cultivated tree crops. However, it is possible for nursery and landscape managers to manipulate some environmental conditions in order to change ecological requirements necessary for successful tree attacks. This presentation will provide an overview of the diversity of wood-boring strategies and some methods to manipulate borer ecology, which may achieve satisfactory control results. Three common landscape and nursery borer groups will be profiled, including ambrosia beetles, flatheaded borers, and clearwing moths.