hornworm
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hornworm
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Garden pests are often highly specialized and named after their favorite food: cabbageworm, corn earworm, tomato hornworm, Colorado potato beetle, cucumber beetle, pea weevil, pepper maggot, Mexican bean beetle, and so on.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2021
You can also encourage predatory insects such as the parasitic wasp that will eat the tomato hornworm.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2021
But as the tomato hornworm story shows us, our ability has a gaping vulnerability: sometimes the ideas we spread are wrong.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 3, 2019
But as with the tomato hornworm, these efforts to disseminate truth did not change how the rumors spread.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 3, 2019
Encouraging results have been obtained with the Hessian fly and the tobacco hornworm.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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