Army Worm

Other insects, such as the Hessian fly, the green-bug or spring grain aphis, the army-worm and various species of grasshoppers are killed by tiny parasitic insects whose eggs are laid in the bodies of the larger insects, but which, after being hatched, feed on them. ❋ Mary Huston Gregory (N/A)

Then possibly the army-worm comes sure enough, and cripples him. ❋ Various (N/A)

Maybe the merchant hears of the army-worm and is alarmed, but the colonel writes back assuring letters that it is only the grasshopper, and the grasshopper has helped more than hurt -- and draws. ❋ Various (N/A)

But this time last years it looked well too, and then, alas! alas! was totally destroyed by the army-worm, so who can tell if it may not again be swept from off the face of the earth in a single night, as it was last year. ❋ Unknown (1883)

"We keep out of the way as much as we can; we eat every kind of troublesome worm and insect, -- the cutworm, canker-worm, tent caterpillar, army-worm, rose-beetle, and the common house-fly; we ask for no wages or food or care, -- and what do we get in return? ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)