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Definition of cankerworm in English: cankerwormnoun ˈkaŋkəwəːmˈkaNGkərˌwərm The caterpillar of a North American moth that has wingless females. Cankerworms consume the buds and leaves of trees and can be a major pest. Several species in the family Geometridae Example sentencesExamples - The first goal of this paper is to document an example of associational susceptibility using the hosts of a common forest pest, the fall cankerworm.
- During all three years of our study, locally high densities of fall cankerworm depleted the preferred resource, box elder, and then ‘spilled over’ onto the less-preferred host, cottonwood.
- With the low dispersal ability of late instar fall cankerworm, it is not surprising that associational susceptibility was evident at the scale of only a few meters.
- Many garden pests are carabid food: cutworms, codling moth larvae, tent caterpillars, slugs, snails and cankerworms to name a few.
- House wrens and chickadees compete for cankerworms and caterpillars; wood ducks, gray squirrels, flickers, and screech owls fight for the same nesting sites.
Definition of cankerworm in US English: cankerwormnounˈkaNGkərˌwərm The caterpillar of a North American moth that has wingless females. Cankerworms consume the buds and leaves of trees and can be a major pest. Several species in the family Geometridae, in particular Paleacrita vernata and Alsophila pometaria Example sentencesExamples - During all three years of our study, locally high densities of fall cankerworm depleted the preferred resource, box elder, and then ‘spilled over’ onto the less-preferred host, cottonwood.
- Many garden pests are carabid food: cutworms, codling moth larvae, tent caterpillars, slugs, snails and cankerworms to name a few.
- With the low dispersal ability of late instar fall cankerworm, it is not surprising that associational susceptibility was evident at the scale of only a few meters.
- The first goal of this paper is to document an example of associational susceptibility using the hosts of a common forest pest, the fall cankerworm.
- House wrens and chickadees compete for cankerworms and caterpillars; wood ducks, gray squirrels, flickers, and screech owls fight for the same nesting sites.
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