[
US
/ˈkətˌwɝm/
]
[ UK /kˈʌtwɜːm/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌtwɜːm/ ]
NOUN
- North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground
How To Use cutworm In A Sentence
- The product works as either a preventive or curative control for fire ants, mole crickets, sod webworms, cutworms, armyworms and chinch bugs.
- 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.
- The product works as either a preventive or curative control for fire ants, mole crickets, sod webworms, cutworms, armyworms and chinch bugs.
- Other insects, such as cutworm and grasshoppers, are general agricultural pests world-wide.
- If the early stand loss is a result of seedcorn maggot, wireworm, grubs, or early cutworm infestation, timely response with rescue treatments may not be feasible.
- Depending on plant growth stage, these tiny cutworms may proceed to the unfolding whorl where they feed on parts of the emerging tassel, or move directly to the ear or leaf axil.
- Which is where I came across this excellent olde saying:"One for the cutworm, one for the crow, one to rot, and one to grow. Full as a goog
- The product works as either a preventive or curative control for fire ants, mole crickets, sod webworms, cutworms, armyworms and chinch bugs.
- More wireworms and white grubs have been observed and increased numbers of dingy cutworms, which overwinter here, are likely.