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cankerworm::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | caterpillar |
| Has types | fall cankerworm, spring cankerworm |
Examples of cankerworm
cankerworm
Retired arborist Jack McNeary urges homeowners to keep checking their cankerworm traps.
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Cankerworm eggs were left in trees and flowering bushes last November by females that crawled into the foliage.
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By wrapping his trees, Neilson is fighting back against one of our region's most annoying pests, the cankerworm.
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A cankerworm crawls on a grape vine in a yard in the Wellington neighborhood in northeast Charlotte off Prosperity Church Road.
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The City of Charlotte is asking for community help in controlling the leaf-eating cankerworm population by banding trees this fall.
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The neighborhood's Oct. 25 Fall Crawl needs volunteers to help distribute cankerworm tree bands and a musical band to lead the Crawl's parade.
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Charlotte has been dealing with them for more than a decade and places in Raleigh, Johnston County and even South Carolina recently have reported an increase in cankerworm populations.
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- Green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees
- Heb. yelek ), "the licking locust," which licks up the grass of the field; probably the locust at a certain stage of its growth, just as it emerges from the caterpillar state (Joe 1:4; Joe 2:25). The word is rendered "caterpillar" in Psa 105:34; Jer 51:14, Jer 51:17 (but R.V. "canker-worm"). ...
- Probably a stage in the development of the locust.
