cotton budworm

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• cotton bollworm — noun larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops • Syn: ↑corn earworm, ↑tomato fruitworm, ↑tobacco budworm, ↑vetchworm, ↑Heliothis zia • Hypernyms: ↑bollworm …   Useful english dictionary

• List of Lepidoptera that feed on cotton plants — Cotton plants ( Gossypium spp ) are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species including:Monophagous species which feed exclusively on Gossypium * Bucculatrix leaf miners::* B. gossypiella :* B. gossypii :* B. loxoptila… …   Wikipedia

• tobacco budworm — noun larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops • Syn: ↑corn earworm, ↑cotton bollworm, ↑tomato fruitworm, ↑vetchworm, ↑Heliothis zia • Hypernyms: ↑bollworm …   Useful english dictionary

• tobacco budworm — noun Date: 1918 an American noctuid moth (Heliothis virescens syn. Helicoverpa virescens) whose striped and variably colored larva feeds on buds and young leaves especially of tobacco and cotton …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Bollworm — A bollworm is a common term for any larva of a moth that attacks the fruiting bodies of certain crops, especially cotton. The most common moths known as bollworms are:* Red or Sudan Bollworm: Diaparopsis * Rough Bollworm: Earias buegeli * Spotted …   Wikipedia

• Gossypium — For information on cotton production, industry, history, and applications, see cotton. Gossypium Gossypium hirsutum Scientific classification …   Wikipedia

• Helicoverpa punctigera — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …   Wikipedia

• Chrysoperla carnea — Chrysoperla carnea, dorsal view Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• Bookworm (insect) — Bookworm is a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books.Actual book borers are uncommon. Both the larvae of the death watch beetle ( Xestobium rufovillosum ) and the common furniture beetle ( Anobium punctatum )… …   Wikipedia

• lepidopteran — /lep i dop teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. lepidopterous. n. 2. a lepidopterous insect. [1850 55; LEPIDOPTER(A) + AN] * * * Any of the more than 100,000 species constituting the order Lepidoptera (Greek: scaly wing ): butterflies, moths, and skippers. The… …   Universalium

• owlet moth — noctuid (def. 1). [1860 65] * * * ▪ insect also called  miller    large worldwide group of more than 20,000 species of triangular, stout bodied nocturnal lepidopterans. The family Noctuidae includes some of the world s largest moths; wingspans in …   Universalium