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Definition of Moth blight

Moth blight
Moth Moth, n.; pl. Moths (m[o^]thz). [OE. mothe, AS. mo[eth][eth]e; akin to D. mot, G. motte, Icel. motti, and prob. to E. mad an earthworm. Cf. Mad, n., Mawk.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc. 3. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larv[ae] of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larv[ae] of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus. 4. Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing. Moth blight (Zo["o]l.), any plant louse of the genus Aleurodes, and related genera. They are injurious to various plants. Moth gnat (Zo["o]l.), a dipterous insect of the genus Bychoda, having fringed wings. Moth hunter (Zo["o]l.), the goatsucker. Moth miller (Zo["o]l.), a clothes moth. See Miller, 3, (a) . Moth mullein (Bot.), a common herb of the genus Verbascum (V. Blattaria), having large wheel-shaped yellow or whitish flowers.

Meaning of Moth blight from wikipedia

- survive a blight infection. The American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and American chinquapin (Castanea pumila) are highly susceptible to chestnut blight. The...
- blight, a fungal disease that came from ****anese chestnut trees that were introduced into North America from ****an. It is estimated that the blight killed...
- in a yellow band of color. By 1996 it had become extinct due to chestnut blight obliterating its primary food source, the American chestnut. World Conservation...
- two states, New Hampshire and Vermont. It became extinct due to chestnut blight obliterating its primary food source, the American chestnut. World Conservation...
- early blight. The pathogen produces distinctive "bullseye" patterned leaf spots and can also cause stem lesions and fruit rot on tomato and tuber blight on...
- Australia. Moth bean is affected by mungbean yellow mosaic virus, for which silverleaf whitefly is the vector. Root rot and seedling blight from Macrophomina...
- inherent disease resistance, but this has not always protected them. The late blight Great Famine of Ireland of the 1840s was caused by the oomycete Phytophthora...
- the crop vulnerable to disease. In 1845, a plant disease known as late blight, caused by the fungus-like oomycete Phytophthora infestans, spread rapidly...
- leaf spot (Pyrenochaeta sp.) leaf blight, leaf fall (Rhizoctonia sp.) Rhizoctonia leaf blight, leaf fall, foliar blight, leaf rot (Rhizoctonia solani syn...
- many resistances since the 1960s. Resistance to Fusarium head blight (FHB, Fusarium ear blight) is also an important breeding target. Marker-****isted breeding...