- Plant disease - Scourge - Setback - To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth
and fertility of. - Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar
essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one's prospects. - To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never
blights. - Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as
a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the
whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or
atmospheric influences.
- A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and
which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the
development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also,
the fungus itself.
- A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvae of which
feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats,
skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius,
known as the bacon beetle.
- Butterfly larva - Earlier version of Madama Butterfly? - Grub supplied to provide food column - Grub to provide food column - Leaf-eating grub - The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous
insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other
insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The
true caterpillars have three pairs of true legs, and several pairs of
abdominal fleshy legs (prolegs) armed with hooks. Some are hairy,
others naked. They usually feed on leaves, fruit, and succulent
vegetables, being often very destructive, Many of them are popularly
called worms, as the cutworm, cankerworm, army worm, cotton worm,
silkworm. - A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling
caterpillars.