spodoptera exigua

Questions about spodoptera exigua

What does spodoptera exigua mean?

spodoptera exigua means "moth larva that eats foliage of beets and other vegetables". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for spodoptera exigua?

Close synonyms include beet armyworm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is spodoptera exigua a common word?

spodoptera exigua is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.