webworm moth

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Noun

webworm moth (plural webworm moths)

  1. Any moth whose larvae inhabit web-like structures.
    • 2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 132:
      He shuffled along next to Randall, his hand wrapped up to the wrist in gauze and tape so that it looked like a webworm moth nest wound tight in a pecan tree, a yarn of larvae eating at the ripe green leaves beneath to burst forth in black-winged flurry in the throat-closing heat of fall.

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