1. Larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
   "Farmers struggled to control the Heliothis zia infestation in their fields";
   - corn earworm, cotton bollworm, tomato fruitworm, tobacco budworm, vetchworm
    
2. Medium-sized moth whose larvae are corn earworms
   - heliothis moth

Type of: bollworm, noctuid, noctuid moth, owlet moth

Part of: family Noctuidae, genus Heliothis, Heliothis, Noctuidae