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cankerworm

[′kaŋ·kər‚wərm]
(invertebrate zoology)
Any of several lepidopteran insect larvae in the family Geometridae which cause severe plant damage by feeding on buds and foliage.
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For example, White & Whitham (2000) note that AS of cottonwoods, because of spillover from the attractant "sink" plant, box elder, was only seen in areas with high cankerworm densities.
Key words: Acer negundo; Alsophila pometaria; associational resistance; associational susceptibility, box elder; cottonwood; dietary breadth; fall cankerworm; plant-herbivore interactions; Populus; preference hierarchy; spillover.
It is possible that arthropod predators showed a strong numerical response to the cankerworm outbreak, which may have been more common within exclosures given the marginally greater spring leaf damage on exclosure trees.
Adaptation to host plants in the fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria) and its bearing on the evolution of host affiliation in phytophagous insects.
Corruption, they say, is a cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabric of Nigeria.
For example, Roland and Embree (1995) recorded the similar pattern of outbreaks of winter moth, Bruce's spanworm, and fall cankerworm in Nova Scotia Canada, and Klimetzek (1990) described a spatial synchronization of outbreaks of four pine-feeding insects in Germany.
There have been numerous observations of genetic divergence associated with host-plant species, including Alsophila pometaria, the fall cankerworm (Mister et al.
She advised youths not to be unnecessarily curious to discover drugs, adding that 'drug abuse is a menace and cankerworm.'
Evidence of pheromonal constancy among sexual and asexual females in a population of fall cankerworm, Alsophila pometaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae).
Adaptation to host plants in the fall cankerworm (Alsophilia pometaria) and its bearing on the evolution of host affiliation in phytophagous insects.
The issue of illegal mining is a cankerworm as far as this college is concerned; illegal mining is as old as the college.
Cultism is like a cankerworm that has eaten deep in the society and that is why the governor is determined to stop everything about cultism in the state.
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