NOUN
- usually dull-colored medium-sized nocturnal moth; the usually smooth-bodied larvae are destructive agricultural pests
How To Use noctuid In A Sentence
- The beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hubner), is a polyphagous noctuid of worldwide importance that feeds on various agricultural crops, including vegetable, cotton and ornamental.
- There aren't very large numbers of macro moths certainly nowhere near the diversity we see in New England, a few noctuids, some small pyralids, and a handful of geometrids.
- We examined larval performance in response to leaf nutritional characteristics using gelechiid and pyralid leaf-tiers, and a noctuid leaf-cutter. Elites TV
- Instead, it is a similar brownish "noctuid" caterpillar / moth that has never before been reported as a widespread pest in Liberia but annually plagues parts of nearby Benin (see map). Rainforest Portal RSS Newsfeed
- This complex of pest species includes tortricid leafrollers, noctuid fruitworms and cutworms, and gracillarid leafminers.
- The army worm is the caterpillar form of the noctuid or Owlet moth. Latest News - UPI.com
- Noctuid moths are eaten by bats, and have evolved a special pair of ears to warn them of approaching danger.
- Lithophane moths are members of the noctuid family, which often are dull colored. Biologist Discovers Pink-Winged Moth | Impact Lab
- Further, extending our study, we also tested the conservation of a selected number of loci in different lepidopteran insects, including B. mandarina, the nearest wild relative to silkworm, a group of saturniids, and a noctuid.
- The beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hubner), is a polyphagous noctuid of worldwide importance that feeds on various agricultural crops, including vegetable, cotton and ornamental.