![]() Monitor germinating crop for expanding thinned or bare areas.Crops should be scouted regularly (weekly) in early spring to June.There are one or two larval generations per year before populations die off in the fall.Adults are 20 mm long body with long, narrow, usually dark forewings which are pale near the tips with three black dashes on each forewing.The mature larvae are up to 46 mm long, smooth and ranges from purplish to brown in colour.Larvae emerge from the pupae in the spring and feed on new plants. Cutworms overwinter in the soil as pupae.each spring females lay eggs on weed and grass hosts in fields or margins. ![]()
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