Complex sentence: The bookworm moth ("Heliothis zea " or"H. virescens") and its larvae are not interested in books: the larvae are pests for cotton or tobacco growers as the cotton bollworm or tobacco budworm.
Split into simpler sentences: The bookworm moth ("Heliothis zea " or"H. virescens") and its larvae are not interested in books. The larvae are pests for cotton or tobacco growers as the cotton bollworm or tobacco budworm.