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