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bagworm /ˈbaɡwəːm /nounA drab moth, the caterpillar and flightless female of which live in a portable protective case constructed out of plant debris.- Family Psychidae: many genera.
We are all guilty of spraying an entire juniper hedge for bagworms when only three or four bags were seen which could have been easily picked off and crushed....- I'm like a bagworm that's lost its bag, a snail without its shell.
- The cheapest method of controlling bagworms on small trees and ornamentals is to hand-pick the bags.
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