Corn earworm moth nightly pheromone trap catches ranged from zero to 9 per night this week (here is the Table). Black light traps averaged 1.8 per night in Petersburg and 1.3 per night in Disputanta.

In our corn earworm adult vial tests with the pyrethroid cypermethrin (5 micrograms/vial rate), 62% of moths were dead or knocked down after a 24-hour exposure (64 moths from Suffolk, VA have been tested to date). We will continue to provide weekly updates on trap catches and vial test results.