Noun: corn earworm
- Larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
"Farmers struggled to control the corn earworm infestation in their fields";
- cotton bollworm, tomato fruitworm, tobacco budworm, vetchworm, Heliothis zia
Derived forms: corn earworms
Type of: bollworm
Part of: family Noctuidae, Noctuidae
Encyclopedia: Corn earworm