NOUN
- larvae (of a noctuid moth) that travel in large groups and destroy grains and alfalfa in the midwestern states
How To Use army cutworm In A Sentence
- Another scientist reported grizzlies flipping over rocks to lick up army cutworm moths, a fat-bodied insect that hides by day in the high-altitude talus slopes in the Rockies.
- This winter's mild weather has resulted in early army cutworm activity again this year.
- From the talus slopes nearby, she'll dig out army cutworm moths, which are about 60 percent fat.
- The army cutworm spends the winter as a partially grown larvae and usually is a threat to wheat and alfalfa at and shortly after these crops break dormancy.