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