Source: NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 7/29/21


It is time to start scouting cotton and soybeans for corn earworm also known as bollworm. On Monday (7/26/21), we deployed 20 pheromone traps across 5 eastern counties to monitor corn earworm. When checking traps today (7/29/21), we counted a large number of moths in traps network located in Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, and Wilson counties (up to 50-60 corn earworm moths per day).

Given the numbers observed in traps over the first 3 days of trapping, we could be in for a moderate to large flight this year.

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