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Noun: Heliothis zia
  1. Medium-sized moth whose larvae are corn earworms
    - heliothis moth
     
  2. Larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
    - corn earworm, cotton bollworm, tomato fruitworm, tobacco budworm, vetchworm

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

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