webworm moth
English
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Noun
[edit]webworm moth (plural webworm moths)
- 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]- asimina webworm moth (Omphalocera munroei)
- bean-leaf webworm moth (Omiodes indicata)
- beet webworm moth (Spoladea recurvalis)
- bluegrass sod webworm moth (Parapediasia teterrellus)
- bluegrass webworm moth (Parapediasia teterrellus)
- burrowing webworm moth (Acrolophidae spp.)
- cabbage webworm moth (Hellula undalis)
- eggplant webworm moth (Rhectocraspeda periusalis)
- fall webworm moth (Hyphantria cunea)
- garden webworm moth (Achyra rantalis)
- harlequin webworm moth (Diathrausta harlequinalis)
- mesquite webworm moth (Friseria cockerelli)
- mimosa webworm (Homadaula anisocentra)
- oak webworm moth (Archips fervidana)
- orange webworm moth (Dichomeris citrifoliella)
- papaya webworm moth (Davara caricae)
- recondite webworm moth (Diathrausta reconditalis)
- sorghum webworm (Nola cereella)
- southern beet webworm ((Herpetogramma bipunctalis)
- soybean leaf folder (Omiodes indicata)
- spotted beet webworm moth (Hymenia perspectalis)
- sweetpotato webworm moth (Helcystogramma convolvuli)
References
[edit]- “webworm moth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.