1. Larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
   - cotton bollworm, tomato fruitworm, tobacco budworm, vetchworm, Heliothis zia

Derived forms: corn earworms

Type of: bollworm

Part of: family Noctuidae, Noctuidae

Encyclopedia: Corn earworm

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