basket worm

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Same as bag-worm.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) a lepidopterous insect of the genus Thyridopteryx and allied genera, esp. Thyridopteryx ephemeræformis. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.