webworm moth

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]
This entry needs a photograph or drawing for illustration. Please try to find a suitable image on Wikimedia Commons or upload one there yourself!

Noun

[edit]

webworm moth (plural webworm moths)

  1. Any moth whose larvae inhabit web-like structures.
    • 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 132:
      He shuffled along next to Randall, his hand wrapped up to the wrist in gauze and tape so that it looked like a webworm moth nest wound tight in a pecan tree, a yarn of larvae eating at the ripe green leaves beneath to burst forth in black-winged flurry in the throat-closing heat of fall.

Derived terms

[edit]

References

[edit]