cutworm

Their larvae eat snails, slugs, and cutworms, and devour the larvae of insect pests.

Warmer temperatures have boosted crop growth in the Canadian province of Manitoba, but flea beetles and cutworms have damaged crops, the government said.

Courgettes are affected by pests such as aphids and cutworms which feed on the young tender stems.

Chiang said that although the FAW and tobacco cutworms are similar in appearance, the FAW's head capsule is brown and has an inverted Y-shaped yellow marking on it.

In another study, Agsaoay reported that of the five identified insect pests attacking jatropha, three were confirmed as major pests such as, mealy bugs, aphids and cutworms [14].

Most of what springs up unbidden is nothing more than a nuisance and nothing less than a direct threat to that which we have planted and protected from wind, downpour, cutworms and rabbits.

However, cutworms have become resistant, and now farmers who plant Bt corn must now turn to powerful and expensive pesticides to control cutworms in their corn fields--a practice that was supposed be obsolete because of biotechnology.

Nearly half of these species (48.5%) prefer to eat the leaves directly; a quarter (25.0%) feed on foliage, but their larvae are also "leafrollers", joining the edges of the leaves with silk threads to build a shelter; 10.3% of the species that injury the foliage also consume the pods; six species are essentially borers (8.8%); while only five (7.4%) act as cutworms (Tables 1 to 3).

Armyworms (Mythimna separata) or cutworms, which are actually caterpillar larvae of northern or oriental armyworm moths of the Noctuidae family, travel in multitudes, destroying any kind of vegetation, including grasses and grains, on their path.

Use PreGro to eliminate the threat of common pests and diseases, ranging from black spot to blight to cutworms and caterpillars.

Cutworms are well protected in weeds and can come out to attack the vines at night.