Source: NCSU COOPERATIVE EXTENSION, 7/18/22


Light trap catches for corn earworm are up this week in Craven, Duplin, Scotland and Stanley county. This is an indication that a flight is on in the southern part of our state and that soybeans at bloom should be scouted for corn earworm. Use the online corn earworm in soybean threshold calculator, and visit the corn earworm soybean pest page for information on this pest in soybeans.

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Important Alert for Bollgard 3, TwinLink Plus and WideStrike 3 Cotton as Bollworm / Corn Earworm Flight Begins

Light trap catches for bollworm (also known as corn earworm) are up this week in Craven, Duplin, Scotland and Stanly county.

Our 21 trap pheromone network has been running for a week in Northampton, Halifax, Nash, Edgecombe, and Wilson counties. Counts were highest in Wilson and southern Edgecombe. The catch was lighter moving toward Northampton county.