cankerworm

In some species, females have reduced wings (e.g. winter moth and fall cankerworm).

Charlotte, NC has a municipal program to control the fall cankerworm which is estimated to infest 73,000 acres.

The fall cankerworm (Alsophila pometraria) is an insect native to North America.

The Fall Cankerworm (Alsophila pometaria) is a moth of the Geometridae family.

Gregory saw in the vandalism caused during this episode the fulfilment of a prophecy of Joel: "that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten".

In September 2005 Akanbe said "Corruption has been described as a cankerworm, a malaise that has afflicted our nation and done havoc to our corporate existence".