European corn borer


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Related to European corn borer: Pyrausta nubilalis

European corn borer:

see corn borercorn borer
or European corn borer,
common name for the larva of a moth of the family Pyralidae, introduced from S Europe into the Boston area in 1917. The corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis,
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