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Definition of Cutworms

Cutworm
Cutworm Cut"worm` (-w?rm`), n. (Zo["o]l.) A caterpillar which at night eats off young plants of cabbage, corn, etc., usually at the ground. Some kinds ascend fruit trees and eat off the flower buds. During the day, they conceal themselves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larv[ae] of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

Meaning of Cutworms from wikipedia

- noctuid species are not cutworms, and some moths whose larvae have essentially the same habit, which justifies calling them cutworms, are not noctuids. The...
- On dry, low elevation rangelands of the U.S. Intermountain West, army cutworms consume exotic cheatgr**** (Bromus tectorum) and mustards to produce cheatgr****...
- Spotted cutworm refers to the caterpillar larvae of certain Noctuinae moth, in particular: Xestia c-nigrum, of the Palaearctic Setaceous Hebrew Character...
- like the letter "Y" or the Gr**** letter upsilon. The larvae are known as "cutworms" because they cut plants and other crops. The larvae are serious agricultural...
- The western bean cutworm (Striacosta albicosta) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae and the only member of the genus Striacosta. It is endemic...
- owlet moths) Euteliidae Noctuidae (daggers, sallows, owlet moths, quakers, cutworms, darts) Nolidae (tuft moths) Notodontidae (prominents, kittens) Oenosandridae...
- by Ochsenheimer in 1816. It is known as the green cutworm when a caterpillar and the green cutworm moth when mature. It is found from south-eastern Canada...
- of crops, including tomatoes and cotton. Peridroma saucia (variegated cutworms) are described as one of the most damaging pests to gardens, with the ability...
- well, but are less vigorous than those grown from seed. In South Africa, cutworms attack the Cape gooseberry in seedbeds, red spiders in the field, and potato...
- to capture snails. Many caterpillars are nocturnal. For example, the "cutworms" (of the family Noctuidae) hide at the base of plants during the day and...