Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Any of several moths of the family Psychidae, which construct fibrous cases of silk spun together with leaves, twigs, or grass. The plant-feeding larvae and wingless adult females live in these cases.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A member of the family Psychidae of the Lepidoptera.
- n. Eastern tent caterpillar.
- n. Fall webworm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platœceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See basket worm.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The larva of a lepidopterous insect, Thyridopteryx ephemeræ-formis (Harris), common throughout the more northern part of the United States.
Etymologies
Examples
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The bagworm is a perennial insect pest of arborvitae, juniper, pine and many other evergreen species.
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I was driving to the kids school Friday in a really good mood and i rounded this corner and i saw the sun shimmering down on the grass and i just thought "wow the world just glows, it is luminescent" and then i realized the sun was reflecting off of these silkworm threads that literally covered the grass, and a bagworm had completely surrounded this ginormous oak.
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Eumeta fuscescens (Pepper bagworm) solanaceous crops
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An undetermined species of bagworm sometimes causes severe defoliation in Sabah, but trees quickly recover.
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A: After a homeowner first takes serious notice of a bagworm, they are not likely to confuse this insect with another living thing.
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The spread of the bagworm is slow since adult females are unable to fly.
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Ankeny residents have reported to the city an increasing population of the bagworm, a caterpillar that is a pest to trees.
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Sounding the arrival of the bagworm, Flickr user and aspiring helminthologist volcanojw recently spent a prolonged period observing and documenting the larva peeking out of its shell.
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There’s also the agromyzid vegetable leafminer, the poinciana looper, the banana skipper, the Egyptian hibiscus mealybug, the chrysomelid cucumber beetle, several species of eumenid wasp, a nititulid beetle, a magarodid, a psyllid, a bagworm—even the names are strange.
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Regarding the "case bearing moth larva" posted 04 / 10 / 2007); you might want to add that these insects also go by the names "household casebearer" and "plaster bagworm."
fbharjo commented on the word bagworm
see railroad worm
April 5, 2012