corn earworm

noun

corn earworm

noun
1

A larva, large, striped, and yellow-headed, of moths of species Helicoverpa zea (syn. Heliothis zea) and Helicoverpa armigera, especially destructive to corn, tomatoes, tobacco, and cotton bolls.

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