army worm
Britishnoun
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the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Leucania unipuncta, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in North America
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any of various similar caterpillars
Example Sentences
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But she has no way to protect her crops from the plague of fall army worm, a pest that has invaded southern Africa as rainfall patterns changed.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
It is neither a boll weevil nor an army worm, and the state entomologist, Prof. T. H. Jones, is investigating.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a lesser scale, three kinds of insects are attacking sweet corn in Maryland and Pennsylvania: the fall army worm, the corn-ear worm and the European corn borer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of grasshoppers, 84; chinch bugs, 100; squash bugs, 12; army worm, 12; cut-worm, 12; mosquitoes, 568 in three hours; cotton boll weevil, 47; flies, 1,350; rose slugs, 1,286.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
Perhaps you have read of the army worm and of the harm it does to grass and grain.
From Friends and Helpers by Eddy, Sarah J.
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