The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word LOCUSTS , but the solution may also be CROWS which is one of the most recent solution (2004 in New York Sun).
Crop pests crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| LOCUSTS | 50 % | 7 |
| CROWS | 50 % | 5 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Crop pests
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- thrips
- weed
- weeds
- weevil
- pesticide
- aphid
- aphis
- blight
- borer
- cane
- cover crop
- culture
Crossword Answer definitions
LOCUSTS noun- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria).
- A fruit or pod of the carob tree.
- Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree.
- A cicada.
- A Mainlander.
- To come in a swarm.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
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More clues leading to the result LOCUSTS
- Hordes of strippers in Exodus
- Swarming insects
- Biblical plague
- Plague swarm
- One of the Ten Plagues
- Trees
- Short-horned grasshoppers
- Seventeen-year visitors
- One of Egypt's plagues
- Eighth plague against the pharoah