Cutworm - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cutwormCutworm
A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage corn etc usually at the ground Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds During the day they conceal themselves in the earth The common cutworms are the larvaelig of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths...
cabbage worm
the larva of several species of moths and butterflies which attacks cabbages The most common is the toxic green larva of a white butterfly the cabbage butterfly Pieris rapaelig The cabbage cutworms which eat off the stalks of young plants during the night are the larvaelig of several species of moths of the genus Agrotis See Cutworm larva of a cabbage butterfly...
Catacala
a genus of moths whose larvae are cutworms underwings...
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...
Noctuid
Any one of numerous moths of the family Noctuidaelig or Noctuaeliglitaelig as the cutworm moths and armyworm moths so called because they fly at night...
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