webworm moth

English

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Noun

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

• 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

• “webworm moth”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.