Crossword clues for cutworm
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caterpillar \Cat"er*pil`lar\, n. [OE. catyrpel, corrupted fr. OF. chatepelouse, or cate pelue, fr. chate, F. chatte, she-cat, fem. of chat, L. catus + L. pilosus hairy, or F. pelu hairy, fr. L. pilus hair. See Cat, and Pile hair.]
(Zo["o]l.) 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.
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(Bot.) A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars.
Caterpillar catcher, or Caterpillar eater (Zo["o]l.), a bird belonging to the family of Shrikes, which feeds on caterpillars. The name is also given to several other birds.
Caterpillar hunter (Zo["o]l.), any species of beetles of the genus Callosoma and other allied genera of the family Carabid[ae] which feed habitually upon caterpillars.
Wiktionary
n. the larva of any of many moths ,of the family ''Noctuidae'', that is an agricultural pest
WordNet
n. North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground
Wikipedia
Cutworms are moth larvae that hide under litter or soil during the day, coming out in the dark to feed on plants. A larva typically attacks the first part of the plant it encounters, namely the stem, often of a seedling, and consequently cuts it down; hence the name cutworm. Cutworms are not worms, biologically speaking, but caterpillars.
Usage examples of "cutworm".
In many areas they have become one of the most effective, as well as safest, ways to take care of pest problems like cutworms, armyworms, root maggots, borers, Wireworms and cabbage white caterpillars.
But different species can kill as many as two hundred kinds of pests, mostly caterpillars, like armyworms, cutworms, corn earworms, moths, leafworms and bollworms.
They eat ants, aphids, cutworms, flies, moths, mosquitoes, slugs, snails, spider mites, termites and many other pests.
Spray on plants to kill or repel cutworms, Wireworms, other caterpillars, slugs and Whiteflies.
An old standby is to sprinkle cornmeal around the plants, which will bloat cutworms to death if they eat it.
At his touch she felt the Lix writhe upon her face like cutworms, then soften and liquefy and pour off down her cheeks and neck.
It keeps the cutworm from doing its boa constrictor number on the plant.
The aggregations of the cutworm moths, and so the feeding grounds of the bears, were usually at the head of the cirques below the massifs.
Above treeline we have incredible blooms of army cutworm moths June through September.
Ethan had expected a worm: earthworm, corn earworm, cutworm, leech, caterpillar, trematode, one type of worm or another.
They run the gamut, from surrounding the garden with copper stripping to keep out snails, to encircling each plant with its own little paper collar to foil cutworms.