David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu
Well, I final updated the form. Congratulations to Brian Farkas and to Chris Cawley for correctly identifying the two earworms in the photos. The first was a small corn earworm larva. You can tell by its bristly appearance and generally dark color. That color will change. The second photo was of a young yellow striped armyworm. You can see the fain stripes down the side of the body. The segments behind the head are slightly larger than the remaining segments, and they have larger black spots behind the true legs which you can almost see in the photo on the side of the body. The third was a corn earworm that had just hatched. Neonates tend to be a translucent orange color.
