beet armyworm

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the caterpillar of a noctuid moth, Laphygma exigua, a pest of beets, asparagus, corn, cotton, peas, and peppers.

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Also called asparagus fern caterpillar.

First recorded in 1900–05

Allergies—Mix one part cucumber juice with one part beet root juice and three parts carrot juice.
Use These 15 Home Remedies Based On Ayurveda To Cure Menstrual Cramps, Hangovers, and Indigestion|Ari Meisel|January 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Best line of the evening: “Cane sugar hides behind beet sugar.”
Republican Debate: Newt’s Curiously Bloodless Performance||January 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Roasted Beets with Walnuts I remember the first oven-roasted beet I ate.
5 Recipes from Art Smith|Cookstr.com|January 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Before, I had eaten only canned beets, and with oven-roasted beets a whole new beet world opened up to me.
5 Recipes from Art Smith|Cookstr.com|January 5, 2010|DAILY BEAST

When she stuttered her thanks, he turned beet red; he was more flustered than she by this unexpected intimacy.
'Are You Also With Fever?'|Dr. Abraham Verghese|February 11, 2009|DAILY BEAST
If he prefer using mangold for beet, he is quite at liberty to do so, and I believe on sufficiently good authority.
Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853|Various
Mangold is here, then, a generic term, standing for other plants equally with the beet.
Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853|Various
The name of the field beet is, in the language of the unlearned, mangel-wurzel, "the root of poverty."
Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853|Various
Beet, however, takes it in the technical sense: justification by faith is the preacher's sword and shield.
Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians|James Denney
The sound was close by, and yet it did not come from the cabin boy, for he was all doubled up laughing, his face as red as a beet.
Beautiful Joe|Marshall Saunders