Cankerworm - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cankerwormCankerworm
The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating and often entirely destroying the foliage Other similar larvaelig are also called cankerworms...
Caterpillar
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect sometimes but less commonly the larval state of other insects as the sawflies which are also called false caterpillars The true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs and several pairs of abdominal fleshy legs prolegs armed with hooks Some are hairy others naked They usually feed on leaves fruit and succulent vegetables being often very destructive Many of them are popularly called worms as the cutworm cankerworm army worm cotton worm silkworm...
Dropworm
The larva of any geometrid moth which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk as the cankerworm or inchworm See inchworm and geometrid...
Phalaelignid
Any moth of the family Phalaelignidaelig of which the cankerworms are examples a geometrid...
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