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Crop Destroying Insect Crossword Clue

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99%5Exact Match!
noun

• any of various small plant-sucking insects

95%8Exact Match!
noun

• noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain

• moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes

• larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted

38%5 Corn __ (crop-destroying larva)
noun

• a drill for penetrating rock

• any of various insects or larvae or mollusks that bore into wood

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