Corn Earworm
A weak cold front will move southeast tonight into tomorrow across the central and eastern corn-growing region before stalling out and largely dissipating. Some south to southwest winds east of this front may serve as a corridor for some additional corn earworm moth flights especially from along/east of I-35 to potentially as far east as the I-75 corridor. Low risks then focus back west in the Plains and western corn-growing region as a stronger cold front takes shape for the weekend and early next week. Low risks then envelop much of the central and eastern corn-growing region again by late in the weekend and especially focusing further east by early in the week as a cold front moves through the whole of the corn-growing region and at least temporarily ends or greatly limits the migration risk by that time. Some isolated corn earworm moth flights have occurred in the past week or two, and additional trap captures are likely in the coming week, as well. While many field crops are not at a susceptible stage to damage as of yet, fresh market and garden crops (such as sweet corn) are beginning to tassel and some of these fields may be impacted by any flights that do occur at this point in the growing season.

