ABSP - Butterflies and Moths

Butterflies and Moths

adonis	a beautiful blue butterfly.
aphrodite	a kind of butterfly.
apollo	a large tropical butterfly > APOLLOS.
arctiid	a moth of the Arctiidae family.
argus	a butterfly with many eye-spots on its wings > ARGUSES.
armyworm	the larva of a small moth that moves in large armies destroying crops.
aweto awato awhato awheto	the so-called vegetable caterpillar of New Zealand.
bagworm	one of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection.
birdwing	a large tropical butterfly.
bobowler	a type of large moth.
bogong bugong	a noctuid moth eaten by Australian aborigines.
bollworm	the larva of a moth which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant.
bombycid bombycoid	like or pertaining to the genus Bombyx, silkworms.
bombyx	a moth of the genus Bombyx, which includes the silkworm moth.
brimstone	a yellow butterfly.
browntail	as in browntail moth, a kind of moth. No —S.
budworm	a moth larva that feeds on plant buds.
burnet	a moth of the genus Zygaena, having red-spotted wings.
butterfly	can be a verb: to split almost entirely and spread apart e.g. a steak.
cabbageworm	the larva of the cabbage butterfly.
cactoblastis	a moth introduced into Australia as a biolgical control for the prickly pear > CACTOBLASTES.
cankerworm	the larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage.
cardinal	a S. European butterfly.
caterpillar	the elongated wormlike larva of a butterfly or moth.
cinnabar	a kind of moth.
clearwing	a transparent-winged moth of the family Sesiidae, often resembling wasps.
cleopatra	a yellow butterfly.
codlin codling quodlin	a kind of moth.
comma	a kind of butterfly with strongly indented wing margins.
cornborer	a European moth whose larvae have become a pest of maize in America.
cornmoth	a moth of the clothes-moth genus.
cornworm	a corn weevil, a corn moth larva.
cutworm	a caterpillar, esp. of the moth genus Agrotis, that feeds on the stems of young plants.
drepanid	a hook-tip moth.
earworm	a BOLLWORM, the larva of a moth which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant.
eggar egger	any of several large brown moths.
eruciform	like or resembling a caterpillar.
fireworm	the larva of a small TORTRICID moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned.
forester	any of various noctuid moths.
fritillary	any of several kinds of spotted butterfly.
gatekeeper	any of several Eurasian butterflies of the genus Pyronia.
geometer	a geometrid caterpillar or moth.
geometrid	any moth of the Geometridae, whose caterpillars are loopers.
goldtail	as in goldtail moth, a European moth with a yellow tail tuft. No —S.
graine	silkworm eggs.
grayling	a woodland butterfly.
hairstreak	a butterfly of the genus Thecla.
hawkmoth	a kind of large moth.
hesperid	any of numerous small butterflies of the family Hesperiidae, somewhat like moths; a skipper.
hopdog	the tussock moth caterpillar.
hornworm	a hawkmoth caterpillar.
inchworm	another name for the LOOPER caterpillar.
leafworm	a moth larva that feeds on leaves.
lepidopteran	an insect such as moth or butterfly.
lepidopterid	a moth or butterfly.
lepidopterous	having four wings, such as a moth or butterfly.
looper	a caterpillar of the Geometridae, so called from its mode of walking.
luna	a North American moth with crescent-shaped markings. [L. luna, moon].
lycaenid	any member of the Lycaenidae, a family of butterflies.
metalmark	one of a family of tropical butterflies.
monarch	an American butterfly that migrates in large numbers.
morpho	a kind of tropical butterfly > MORPHOS. [Gk. Morpho, a name of Aphrodite].
mothlike	like a moth.
mothproof	to make proof against moths.
mothy	full of moths > MOTHIER, MOTHIEST.
noctua	a general name for any moth of the family Noctuidae.
noctuid	a kind of night-flying moth.
noctuoid	of or like a NOCTUID, a night-flying moth.
notodontid	a member of the Notodontidae genus of moths.
nymphalid	any butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.
oobit oubit woubit woobut	a hairy caterpillar, esp. of the tiger moth.
palmerworm	any destructive caterpillar.
papilio	a genus of butterflies. [L. papilio, butterfly].
peacock	a kind of butterfly, with prominent eye-spots.
pierid pieridine	relating to the family Pieridae of butterflies, that includes the whites, brimstones, and sulphurs.
porina	the larva of a moth that damages grassland.
pug	any of several small geometrid moths.
pyralid pyralis pyralidid	a kind of moth. [Gk. pyralis, from pyr, fire].
quodlin	see CODLIN.
ringlet	any of numerous butterflies of the genus Erebia, which have dark brown wings marked with small black-and-white eyespots.
saturniid	any of a family of large tropical moths.
satyrid	any butterfly of the family SATYRIDAE.
silkworm	the larva of the Chinese moth Bombyx mori, that feeds on the leaves of the mulberry tree: widely cultivated as a source of silk.
skeletonizer skeletoniser	any of the larva of various moths that feed on leaves reducing them to skeletons.
skipper	any small butterfly of the family Hesperiidae, having a hairy mothlike body and erratic darting flight.
spanworm	the larva of any geometrid moth, such as the CANKERWORM.
sphingid	a member of the Sphingidae family, hawk-moths.
swallowtail	any of various butterflies of the genus PAPILIO.
tineid	a moth of the family TINEIDAE.
tortoiseshell	a kind of butterfly with colourful markings.
tortricid	any moth of the family Tortricidae.
tortrix	a tortricid moth, esp. of the genus Tortrix; a leaf-roller moth > TORTRIXES or TORTRICES.
troilus	a large American butterfly > TROILUSES.
underwing	any of various moths with conspicuous hindwings.
vanessa vanessid	a butterfly of the red admiral genus Vanessa. [Perhaps for Phanessa, from Greek Phanes, a mystic divinity].
vaporer vapourer	a day-flying moth of the genus Orgyia.
viceroy	a showy North American nymphalid butterfly.
waxworm	a moth that infests beehives.
webworm	any of a number of caterpillars that spin webs in which they rest.
witchetty	any of the edible grubs of certain moths and longhorn beetles. [Aborig. wityu hooked stick + varti grub.]
woobut	see OOBIT.
woubit	see OOBIT.
zygaenid zygaenoid	relating to the moth family Zygaenidae, that includes burnet moths.

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