David Owens, Extension Entomologist, owensd@udel.edu
According to my random number generator, a hearty congratulations goes to Keith McGowan and everyone who entered Western Bean Cutworm for last week’s GTP. WBC began expanding its range eastward about 20 years ago and in 2012 Joanne trapped for it in Delaware and captured a handful. I trapped for it in 2018 and 2019 and caught even fewer than Joanne did. Thus, to find one in a sweet corn field in September seems a bit unusual. Perhaps I will put traps up next year to see if anything has changed in the last 5 years.
David holds a Western Bean Cutworm