Kill These Cutworms!
Cutworms, in general, become nectar seeking moths in adulthood and stop eating the plants but getting what they need from them. The best solution for control of cut worms is to use an herbicide to kill the cutworms natural habitat and forcing them to leave.
Cutworms pictured here Are the larvae or caterpillars of some moths are called cutworms There are a great many species of cutworms. While they all feed on plants by chewing, they vary as to damage done and host plants preferred
Cutworms pictured here Generally they destroy more of the plant than they eat. Their numbers vary greatly from year to year and, when numerous, may destroy as much as 75% of a crop
Cutworms pictured here The many species of cutworms can be quite distinct. Many are stout, smooth, soft-bodied, plump caterpillars. These vary from brown or tan to pink, green or gray and black. Some are all one color, others spotted or striped. Some larvae are dull, others appear glassy. The adults are generally very robust brown or black moths showing various splotches, blotches or stripes in shades of gray, brown, black or white
Black Cutworms pictured here are Solitary surface cutworms. They cut off young plants at or slightly above or below the soil line, sometimes dropping the severed plants into their burrows. Because most of the plant is not eaten, these cutworms do great damage, attacking and felling new plants nightly. The black, bronzed, clay-backed and dingy cutworms are in this group.
Dingy Cutworms pictured here, are another type of cutworm. also army worms you may have seen are part of this group and they occur in great numbers, consuming the tops of plants and then "marching" on to other fields.
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