budworm

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budworm

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From bud + worm.

noun budworms

Any of various noctuid moths, the caterpillars of some species being significant agricultural pests (for example, the native budworm, Helicoverpa punctigera, of Australia and New Zealand). After working briefly for a federal entomologist to control the spruce budworm — and spraying DDT from the air — he returned to the Adirondacks in 1946 to be district ranger at Cranberry Lake for 11 years.
The caterpillar of these moths.

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@misc{budworm_2026,
  title = {budworm},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/budworm},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}