Floral lures may doom corn earworm. (includes related article on hunting moths in the dark)

From: Agricultural Research | Date: June 1, 1991| Author: | Copyright information

Floral Lures May Doom Corn Earworm

For part of its life, the corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea, is a night-flying moth that sips the nectar of weed flowers, such as the gaura. Drawn by the alluring fragrance of blossoms, virgin female moths choose food

before sex: All newly emerged females spend their first night feeding and wait until their second night to mate.

This peculiar preference is the key to a strategy ARS researchers are devising to kill a most troublesome insect.

In the caterpillar stage that follows the moth form, H. zea - variously known as the corn ...

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