Departments of Plant Pathology and Entomology
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
North Carolina State University

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North Carolina Pest News
Volume 12, Number 17, August 15, 1997
Stephen J. Toth, Jr. and Thomas A. Melton, editors

The information and recommendations in this newsletter are applicable to North Carolina and may not apply in other areas.

From: Curtis D. Fountain, Area Cotton Agent, Craven, Jones and Onslow Counties

Light Trap Data From Craven County

Location: Fort Barnwell
Monitored by: Carolina Ag Services ******************************************************************** Number of Adult Moths ***************************************************** Date Bollworm Complex European Corn Borers Stinkbugs ******************************************************************** July 2 1 0 37 July 4 6 2 2 July 6 5 3 8 July 8 10 3 4 July 10 7 3 11 July 12 3 0 5 July 14 5 0 3 July 18 6 2 6 July 20 8 2 8 July 22 4 0 3 July 24 15 0 6 July 26 15 8 2 July 28 16 3 4 July 30 63 28 7 August 1 24 14 4 August 2 3 4 1 August 4 13 0 2 August 6 7 2 1 August 8 41 0 1 August 11 66 7 1 August 13 31 5 0 August 15 57 0 0 ********************************************************************

Light Trap Data From Jones County

Location: Comfort
Monitored by: Morris Pike ******************************************************************** Number of Adult Moths ***************************************************** Date Bollworm Complex European Corn Borers Stinkbugs ******************************************************************** July 7 0 5 25 July 10 0 3 10 July 11 4 5 3 July 14 7 6 5 July 16 0 7 2 July 18 0 3 3 July 21 2 4 4 July 23 7 4 1 July 25 1 2 0 July 28 86 14 7 July 30 76 11 2 August 1 6 1 0 August 4 16 5 0 August 6 4 0 0 August 8 20 0 0 August 11 130 2 0 August 13 84 6 0 August 15 250 10 0 ********************************************************************

Light Trap Data From Onslow County

Location: Gregory Fork
Monitored by: Curtis Fountain ******************************************************************** Number of Adult Moths ***************************************************** Date Bollworm Complex European Corn Borers Stinkbugs ******************************************************************** July 7 5 15 1 July 10 24 18 1 July 11 9 7 4 July 14 3 8 0 July 16 4 2 0 July 18 4 2 0 July 21 3 2 1 July 23 6 9 2 July 25 13 17 2 July 28 34 21 1 July 30 44 16 0 August 1 119 10 0 August 4 97 34 2 August 6 183 25 0 August 8 334 21 0 August 11 253 47 4 August 13 59 13 0 August 15 115 10 1 ********************************************************************

From: Bryant M. Spivey, Agricultural Extension Agent, Duplin County

Light Trap Data From Duplin County

Location: Beautancus
Cooperators: Vic and Teresa Swinson ************************************************************************** Number of Adult Moths ************************************************************ Tobacco European Green Brown Date Bollworms budworms corn borers stinkbugs stinkbugs ************************************************************************** July 4 2 0 1 10 0 July 7 10 2 8 41 0 July 9 5 0 10 10 1 July 11 0 0 1 4 0 July 14 4 1 14 0 0 July 16 1 0 27 6 1 July 18 4 0 24 6 1 July 21 31 2 73 4 1 July 23 32 1 64 4 1 July 25 111 2 84 1 0 July 28 93 0 45 5 1 July 30 52 1 49 4 0 August 1 32 0 2 0 0 August 4 25 0 18 7 1 August 6 27 1 7 0 0 August 8 27 0 1 0 0 August 11 156 0 10 1 0 August 13 253 0 19 17 1 August 15 525 0 13 4 0 **************************************************************************

From: Charles W. Holloway, Agricultural Research Technician, Department of Entomology

Pheromone and Light Trap Data From Johnston County

Trap Location: McGee's Crossroads
Monitored by: Charles W. Holloway ****************************************************************** Number of Adult Insects ***************************************************** Date CL CL CEW ECB SHW TBHW TMHW WW ****************************************************************** May 12 a b b b b b b b May 16 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 May 23 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 May 30 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 June 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 June 13 6 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 June 20 28 2 3 35 0 0 0 20 June 27 45 0 5 99 0 0 0 35 July 3 15 0 4 9 0 0 1 9 July 11 36 0 1 5 0 0 0 27 July 18 30 0 3 2 0 0 1 6 July 25 39 0 12 5 0 0 2 4 August 1 23 0 75 31 0 1 8 18 August 6 2 0 60 18 0 0 1 3 August 15 11 0 187 32 0 0 0 3 ****************************************************************** Abbreviations: CL = cabbage loopers; CEW = corn earworms; ECB = European corn borers; SHW = sweetpotato hornworms; TBHW = tobacco hornworms; TMHW = tomato hornworms a - pheromone trap set b - light trap set

From: Alan A. Harper, Agricultural Extension Agent, Lenoir County

Light Trap Data From Lenoir County


JUNE

    *****************************************************************
                               Number of Adult Insects               
    *****************************************************************
     Date         HW    CEW    AW    GSB    BSB    ECB    FAW    TBW 
    *****************************************************************
     June 8        a     a      a     a      a      a                
     June 9        0     0      0     0      0      0                
     June 10       0     0      0     0      0      0                
     June 11       0     0      1     0      0      0                
     June 12       0     0      2     3      0      0                
     June 13       0     0      0     5      1      0                
     June 14       0     0      0     2      2      0                
     June 15       1     0      1     0      0      0                
     June 16       1     0      0     0      0      0                
     June 17       0     0      0     0      0      0                
     June 18       1     0      3     8      2      0                
     June 19       1     0      0     0      0      0                
     June 20       0     0      0     1      0      0                
     June 21       1     1      0     1      2      1                
     June 22       3     0      0     4      3      2                
     June 23       0     1      1     0      0      0                
     June 24       0     1      1     0      0      0                
     June 25       1     0      0     0      1      0                
     June 26       0     0      0     0      9      0                
     June 27       2     2      0     2      4      1                
     June 28       3     2      0     0      0      0                
     June 29       0     1      0     0      0      0                
     June 30       0     3      0     0      0      0                
    *****************************************************************


JULY

    *****************************************************************
                               Number of Adult Insects               
    *****************************************************************
     Date         HW    CEW    AW    GSB    BSB    ECB    FAW    TBW 
    *****************************************************************
     July 1        1     2      0     0      0      0                
     July 2        2     0      0     0      0      0                
     July 3        1     2      0     0      0      0                
     July 4        0     4      2     5      4      0                
     July 5        0     0      0     0      2      2                
     July 6        0     0      0     0      1      1                
     July 7        0     2      0     0      0      1                
     July 8        0     0      0     1      0      0                
     July 9        0     1      0     0      0      0                
     July 10       4     1      0     0      0      0                
     July 11       0     0      0     0      0      0                
     July 12       1     0      0     0      0      0                
     July 13       1     1      0     0      0      0                
     July 14       2     2      0     0      0      0      0      0  
     July 15       2     1      0     1      0      0      0      0  
     July 16       5     0      0     0      0      1      0      0  
     July 17       0     0      0     0      0      0      0      0  
     July 18       2     0      0     0      0      0      0      0  
     July 19       6     2      0     0      0      0      0      0  
     July 20       3     0      0     1      0      4      0      0  
     July 21       5     4      0     0      0      1      0      0  
     July 22       2     4      0     0      0      7      2      0  
     July 23      10     5      1     0      0      6      1      0  
     July 24      14    12      0     0      0      2      3      0  
     July 25      19    11      1     1      0      3      0      0  
     July 26       9    28      0     1      0      2     11      0  
     July 27      21    31      2     0      0     10      5      0  
     July 28      12    40      0     0      0     11      4      0  
     July 29      20    81      1     0      0     23      1      0  
     July 30      15    25      0     1      0      7      0      0  
     July 31      14    18      1     0      0      5      4      0  
    *****************************************************************



AUGUST

    *****************************************************************
                               Number of Adult Insects               
    *****************************************************************
     Date         HW    CEW    AW    GSB    BSB    ECB    FAW    TBW 
    *****************************************************************
     August 1      1    47      1     0      0      1      1      0  
     August 2      4    16      1     0      0      4      4      0  
     August 3      0    18      0     0      0      0      0      1  
     August 4      4    26      0     0      0      3      0      0  
     August 5      1    34      0     0      0      3      1      0  
     August 6      0    43      0     0      0      6      4      0  
     August 7      0    55      0     0      0      1      0      0  
     August 8      0    34      0     0      0      0      0      0  
     August 9      0    49      1     0      0      0      0      0  
     August 10     1    45      0     0      0      3      0      0  
     August 11     1    26      0     1      0      2      0      0  
     August 12     2    13      0     0      0      2      0      0  
     August 13     0    27      0     3      0      7      0      0  
     August 14     2   108      0     1      0     14      0      0  
     August 15     0    54      0     0      0     14      0      0  
    *****************************************************************

Abbreviations: HW = hornworms; CEW = corn earworms;
AW = true armyworms; GSB = green stink bugs;
BSB = brown stink bugs; ECB = European corn borers

a = light trap set

From: William C. Ellers, Agricultural Extension Agent, Sampson County

Pheromone and Light Trap Data From Sampson County


 ****************************************************************************
                                Number of Adult Insects                     
               **************************************************************
                 Corn        European      Tobacco      Tobacco       Fall  
  Date          earworm     corn borer     hornworm     budworm     armyworm
 ****************************************************************************
  June 11 a        0            10             1           -                
  June 13          0            13             2           -                
  June 16          0             8             2           b                
  June 18          1             4             3           0                
  June 19          0             5             2           0                
  June 20          c             c             c           1                
  June 23          3             7             4           0                
  June 25          0             1             4           0                
  June 27          0             5             5           0                
  June 30          1             1             5           0                
  July 2           0             3             5           0                
  July 7           2             2             3           2                
  July 9           d             d             d           0                
  July 11          2             1             7           1                
  July 14          0             1            24           e                
  July 18          1             8           135           0                
  July 21          5             6            30           0                
  July 23         14             7            21           2                
  July 25         67            49            41          11                
  July 28        116            56            45           6                
  July 30         82            38            34           0                
  August 1        70             1             6           0                
  August 4        69             1            14           0                
  August 6       123             4            17           -                
  August 8        68             0            12           0                
  August 11      111             2            10           0            3   
  August 13      161             9             7           0            3   
  August 15      236             7            14           -            4   
 ****************************************************************************

 a = Corn earworm, European corn borer, tobacco hornworm and fall armyworm
     counts are from a light trap east of Clinton, North Carolina.

 b = Tobacco budworm counts are from a pheromone trap south of Clinton, North
     Carolina set up on June 16.

 c = light trap down

 d = light trap off

 e = pheromone trap down

From: Robert H. Pleasants, Agricultural Extension Agent, Wayne County

Pheromone Trap Data From Wayne County


****************************************************************************
                                Number of Adult Insects                     
            ****************************************************************
              Belfast Location      Eureka Location      Pricetown Location 
            ********************  ********************  ********************
             Tobacco     Corn      Tobacco     Corn      Tobacco     Corn   
 Date        budworms  earworms    budworms  earworms    budworms  earworms 
****************************************************************************
 July 14        0         10          1          3                          
 July 16        1         26          0          6                          
 July 18        0         16          2          6                          
 July 21        0          2          0         16                     2    
 July 23        2         21          1         26                    21    
 July 25        1          7          3         27                    31    
 July 28                  64                    56                     a    
 July 30                  32                    21                    82    
 August 1                  6                    22                     a    
 August 4                 30                    46                    16    
 August 6                 22                    31                     5    
 August 8                  6                     9                    10    
 August 11                62                    58                    20    
 August 13                55                   163                    85    
 August 15               136                   171                     b    
****************************************************************************

a = trap was not checked

b = no report

From: Norman E. Harrell, Jr., Agricultural Extension Agent, Wilson County

Light Trap Data From Wilson County



Location: Lucama, North Carolina
Monitored by: Chris Bass

    ******************************************************************
                                  Number of Adult Insects              
                  ****************************************************
    Date           Bollworm Complex    Stinkbugs    Tobacco Hornworms 
   *******************************************************************
    July 29                2                2              46         
    July 31                7                1              12         
    August 3               4                0              10         
    August 5               4                4              14         
    August 7              16                0               7         
   *******************************************************************


Location: Fountain, North Carolina
Monitored by: Barbara Smith

    ******************************************************************
                                  Number of Adult Insects              
                  ****************************************************
    Date           Bollworm Complex    Stinkbugs    Tobacco Hornworms 
   *******************************************************************
    July 28               10               13              17         
    July 30               13                0               9         
    August 1              10                2               8         
    August 3              13                1              11         
    August 5              23                1              11         
    August 7              49                0               4         
   *******************************************************************


Location: Town Creek Community, North Carolina
Monitored: Jill Williford

    ******************************************************************
                                  Number of Adult Insects              
                  ****************************************************
    Date           Bollworm Complex    Stinkbugs    Tobacco Hornworms 
   *******************************************************************
    July 27               15                7              16         
    July 30               15                2              17         
    August 3              20                2              24         
    August 5              29                1               4         
   *******************************************************************

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North Carolina Pest News Volume 12, Number 17, August 15, 1997 Stephen J. Toth, Jr. and Thomas A. Melton, editors