NOUN
- larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
How To Use corn earworm In A Sentence
- By mid-summer, both grasshoppers and corn earworms can be heavy feeders on a variety of crops.
- In April, the researchers began field testing another lure formulation that attracts alfalfa loopers, cabbage loopers, and corn earworms.
- They are economical to raise, however, and mass releases can be very effective against corn earworm, cabbageworms, loopers, hornworms, codling moth and other leaf-eating caterpillars.
- Agriculture professionals applaud the bats, which feed on migratory corn earworm moths (also known as cotton bollworms), America's number-one agricultural pest.
- These insectivorous species feed on a wide range of aerial insects, some of which are considered to be major agricultural pests, including corn earworms and cotton boleworms. Contributor: Thomas Kunz
- They are economical to raise, however, and mass releases can be very effective against corn earworm, cabbageworms, loopers, hornworms, codling moth and other leaf-eating caterpillars.
- Last year I had corn earworm damage in just about every ear.
- Midwesterners call the insects corn earworms, but farmers elsewhere grumble about cotton bollworms and tomato fruitworms.
- European corn earworms can be controlled by squirting mineral oil on the silk where it emerges from the ear.
