Corn Earworm
An active weather pattern is expected to continue for much of the corn-growing region in the next week, with no less than two cold fronts and a persistent battle between warm and humid air to the south and cooler, drier Canadian air to the north. Precipitation will also be common in between, and may serve as the more favored corridors for mainly isolated corn earworm migration events especially in the first 3-4 nights this week before a predominant westerly to northwesterly flow takes over. Low migration risks are predicted tonight into tomorrow mainly from Kansas, Missouri, and western Kentucky northward to near I-90 and I-94 in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and southwest lower Michigan. Low risks then focus a little further west but generally along the same latitude tomorrow night into Wednesday, with the second and likely slightly stronger cold front then pushing through Thursday and Friday, ending any migration risk by the weekend. While the majority of field crops are not at a stage where corn earworm damage will occur, fresh market and garden growers are encouraged to regularly monitor traps and scout those crops and produce that may serve as good hosts and/or where damage to the vegetable could occur at this point in the growing season.

