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tortricid

NOUN
  1. any of numerous small moths having lightly fringed wings; larvae are leaf rollers or live in fruits and galls

How To Use tortricid In A Sentence

  • At both sites where mortality was monitored, many emerging seedlings were killed in early spring by tortricid caterpillars, especially Clepsis melaleucana.
  • Our studies have demonstrated it is possible to simultaneously disrupt pheromone communication and mating in sympatric tortricid moths by releasing an incomplete mixture of their individual pheromone components.
  • The carnation tortrix moth is a butterfly of the tortrix moths family (Tortricidae).
  • Among the species responsible for such early spring herbivory were 6 species of tortricid leaf-roller caterpillars, primarily Clepsis melaleucana, and a European slug, Arion subfuscus (Draparnaud).
  • This complex of pest species includes tortricid leafrollers, noctuid fruitworms and cutworms, and gracillarid leafminers.
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