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.
尺蠖
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:
cankerworm
nounˈkaNGkərˌwərm
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.
尺蠖
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.