bag-wormn.
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The larva of American lepidoptera of the family Psychidæ (esp. Thyridopteryx and Œceticus), injurious to trees, which builds as a portable habitation a silken case or sac covered with little twigs and leaves. Called also basket-worm, drop-worm.
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1862 Congress. Globe Jan. 232 On the avenue and in the parks you will find the evergreen trees..being destroyed by the bag-worm.
1871 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Fireside Stories 158 The young Hokums was jest like bag-worms, the more they growed the more they eat.
1885 H. C. McCook Tenants Old Farm 384 Basket or bag-worms.
1897 J. H. Comstock Insect Life 204 The Bag-worms, family Psychidæ.
1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. ii. vi. 394 One of the North American basket- or bag-worms Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis.
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bagworm moth n. a small moth of the family Psychidae, whose larvae produce portable silken cases or sacs covered with fragments of vegetable matter, bark, soil, etc.
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1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies iii. 329 Make a comparative study of butterflies, Skippers..Bagworm moths, Slug-caterpillar moths, and any others convenient for study.
1976 Jrnl. Paleontol. 50 345/1 This preservation represents a live oak leaf..that has been partially eaten..by what appears to be an immature lepidopteran, probably a member of the family Psychidae (bagworm moths).
2010 Topeka (Kansas) Capital-Jrnl. (Nexis) 5 June 3 In mid-September each year, black male bagworm moths, with 1-inch clear wings, wiggle out of their hiding places.
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