| 单词 | honeycomb moth |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoneycomb moth honeycomb moth n. the wax moth, Galleria mellonella (family Pyralidae), a cosmopolitan pest of beehives. Cf. honey moth n. at honey n. and adj. Compounds 1b(b). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > member of genus Galleria (honey-moth) honeycomb moth1758 honey moth1798 hive-moth1931 1758 T. Flloyd & J. Hill tr. J. Swammerdam Bk. Nature ii. 5/1 I have delineated the honey-comb Moth in Tab. XXVI. 1830 J. Rennie Insect Transformations viii. 222 The honeycomb moth..and the honey moth..do very considerable damage to the hives of bees. 1993 B. A. Richardson Wood Preserv. 208/2 The two most important species [of the family Pyralidae] are the Bee moth, Aphomia sociella, and the Honeycomb moth. 2008 West Briton (Nexis) 6 Aug. 44 There is a honeycomb moth whose larvae feed on honeycomb. < as lemmas |
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