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