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Silk moth
(redirected from giant silk moth)

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(Zool.) the adult moth of any silkworm. See Silkworm.

See also: Silk



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Some of the giant silk moths of North America are taking a beating because an early 20th-century attempt to control another insect went bad, researchers in Massachusetts suggest.
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