webworm moth
noun1
Any moth whose larvae inhabit web-like structures.
- He shuffled along next to Randall, his hand wrapped up to the wrist in gauze and tape so that it looked like a webworm moth nest wound tight in a pecan tree, a yarn of larvae eating at the ripe green leaves beneath to burst forth in black-winged flurry in the throat-closing heat of fall.2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 132:
- Derived terms
- asimina webworm moth, bean-leaf webworm moth, beet webworm moth, bluegrass sod webworm moth, bluegrass webworm moth, burrowing webworm moth, cabbage webworm moth, eggplant webworm moth, fall webworm moth, garden webworm moth, harlequin webworm moth, mesquite webworm moth, mimosa webworm, oak webworm moth, orange webworm moth, papaya webworm moth, recondite webworm moth, sorghum webworm, southern beet webworm, soybean leaf folder, spotted beet webworm moth, sweetpotato webworm moth