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caterpillar

DEFINITIONS OF: caterpillar

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n a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth

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tussock caterpillar
larva of a tussock moth
cankerworm
green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees
inchworm, looper, measuring worm
small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae
Phthorimaea operculella, potato tuberworm
larva of potato moth; mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco
cutworm
North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground
Pseudaletia unipuncta, army worm, armyworm
noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain
Spodoptera exigua, beet armyworm
moth larva that eats foliage of beets and other vegetables
Spodoptera frugiperda, fall armyworm
larva of a migratory American noctuid moth; destroys grasses and small grains
Manduca sexta, tobacco hornworm, tomato worm
large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants; similar to tomato hornworm
Manduca quinquemaculata, potato worm, tomato hornworm
large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm
silkworm
the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk
giant silkworm, silkworm, wild wilkworm
larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
tent caterpillar
the larvae of moths that build and live in communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees
lappet caterpillar
larva of a lappet moth
webworm
several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed
Pyrausta nubilalis, corn borer
larva of the European corn borer moth; a serious pest of maize
bollworm
any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls
Pieris rapae, cabbageworm
toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly
woolly bear, woolly bear caterpillar
caterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairs; feed on plants and some are destructive pests
spring cankerworm
variably colored looper; larva of Paleacrita vernata
fall cankerworm
green or brown white-striped looper; larva of Alsophila pometaria
Chorizagrotis auxiliaris, army cutworm
larvae (of a noctuid moth) that travel in large groups and destroy grains and alfalfa in the midwestern states
Samia cynthia, ailanthus silkworm
large green silkworm of the cynthia moth
Malacosoma disstria, forest tent caterpillar
larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a web resembling a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees
Hyphantria cunea, fall webworm
a variety of webworm
Loxostege similalis, garden webworm
a variety of webworm
Gelechia gossypiella, pink bollworm
larvae of a gelechiid moth introduced from Asia; feeds on the seeds of cotton bolls
Heliothis zia, corn earworm, cotton bollworm, tobacco budworm, tomato fruitworm, vetchworm
larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
woolly bear moth
larva of moth of the family Arctiidae
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the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
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