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leaf roller

or leaf·roll·er (lēf′rō′lər)
n.
Any of various moths whose larvae make nests of rolled leaves and silk and are pests of many crops and ornamental plants.
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The leafroller caterpillars, in early development, scrape the leaf parenchyma, making a net in the leaflets, which dry out.
Effects of intercropping sesame, Sesamum indicum and false sesame, Ceratotheca sesamoides on infestation by the sesame leafroller, Antigastra catalaunalis, the green semilooper, Chrysodeixis acuta and the parasitiod, Apanteles syleptae.
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