looper

Examples

• All

• One crop that has failed the stick test is cabbage, so Surround doesn't control cabbage loopers and other worms.

  Academic text (2000)

• This effect results in increased survival of velvet bean caterpillars and cabbage loopers in soybeans.

  Academic text (1992)

• We talked about all the time with the the cabbage moths, the cabbage loopers, they hone in on the cabbage plants or brassicas.

• The next step, Kendall said, is to apply this new approach to field populations; the researchers are now looking at pine looper moth (Bupalus pinarius) populations in Europe.

  Academic text (1998)

• In 1994, they tested this approach by combining, in one dispenser, pheromones to control two pests—the diamondback and the cabbage looper.

  Academic text (1994)

• Using video microscopy, entomologist Allen Cohen observes details of a green lacewing larva feeding on a cabbage looper larva.

  Academic text (1997)

• Cabbage loopers are often found munching on the leaves of vegetable gardens in late summer.

• Gardeners should watch for loopers, as their feeding can cause significant damage to crops.

• The small green loopers can be identified by the way they move in a characteristic looping motion.

Synonyms

C

caterpillar

vslooper

43 1.0

A soft young insect like a worm that becomes a butterfly or moth and eats leaves

refers specifically to the hairless looping larva with legs only front and rear

I

inchworm

vslooper

3 5.3

A small green caterpillar that moves by making a loop with its body

is focused on taxonomic family rather than color or measuring image

M

measuring worm

vslooper

• UK

8.1

A small caterpillar with legs only near its head and tail that moves by making a loop

is defined as that larva especially from one moth family

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology