webworm moth

plural webworm moths

1. Any moth whose larvae inhabit web-like structures.

   He shuffled along next to Randall, his hand wrapped up to the wrist in gauze and tape so that it looked like a webworm moth nest wound tight in a pecan tree, a yarn of larvae eating at the ripe green leaves beneath to burst forth in black-winged flurry in the throat-closing heat of fall.

   2011, Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones, Bloomsbury (2017), page 132