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budworm

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bud·worm  (bdwûrm)
n.
A larva of several tortricid moths, especially the spruce budworm, that devours plant buds.


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2008) have documented the negative impacts that the spruce budworm, the Douglas-fir beetle, and the mountain pine beetle have had on the Helena, Gallatin, and Beaverhead-Deerlodge national forests.
Born in Toronto and educated at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia, he worked for many years as a research scientist for the government of Canada, where he pioneered the study of budworm infestations in the great spruce forests of New Brunswick.
Baskerville, The Forestry Problem: Adaptive Lurches of Renewal, in BARRIERS AND BRIDGES, supra note 19, at 46 (describing the frequency of budworm outbreaks).
 
 
 
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