webworm
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webworm (plural webworms)
- Any of various caterpillars, of diverse moth families, that spin a web; the moth species of such a caterpillar.
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- ailanthus webworm (Atteva aurea: family Attevidae)
- alfalfa webworm (Loxostege commixtalis: Crambidae)
- beet webworm (Spoladea recurvalis: family Crambidae)
- cabbage webworm (Hellula undalis, Hellula rogatalis: family Crambidae)
- corn root webworm (Neodactria caliginosellus: family Crambidae)
- cotoneaster webworm (Athrips rancidella: family Gelechiidae)
- fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea: family Erebidae)
- garden webworm (Aristotelia roseosuffusella: family Gelechiidae)
- grass webworm (Calamotropha leptogrammellus: family Crambidae)
- Hawaiian beet webworm (Spoladea recurvalis: family Crambidae)
- juniper webworm (Aethes rutilana: family Tortricidae)
- mimosa webworm (Homadaula anisocentra: family Galacticidae)
- oak webworm (Archips fervidana: family Tortricidae)
- Old World webworm (Hellula undalis: family Crambidae)
- orange webworm (Dichomeris citrifoliella: family Gelechiidae)
- pasture webworm (Hednota longipalpella: family Crambidae)
- pale juniper webworm (Aethes rutilana: family Tortricidae)
- papaya webworm (Davara caricae: family: Tortricidae)
- parsnip webworm (Depressaria radiella: family Oecophoridae)
- pine false webworm (Acantholyda erythrocephala: family Pamphiliidae)
- pine webworm (Pococera robustella: family Pyralidae)
- sod webworm (Crambus and Herpetogramma spp.: family Crambidae)
- sorghum webworm (Nola cereella: famiy Nolidae)
- tropical grass webworm (Herpetogramma licarsisalis: family Crambidae)
- turf webworm
- webworm moth
