Corn Earworm
A stagnant weather pattern is expected to hold over much of the corn-growing region for the next week. High pressure is likely to anchor over the eastern corn-growing region, or just east into the Appalachian Mountains through early next week while low pressure remains in the High Plains and southern Canada. South to southwest winds and rather warm to even hot conditions are expected in between these pressure centers, and the persistence of southerly winds from source regions especially in Texas may lead to at least isolated corn earworm moth flights into fields especially along/west of the Mississippi River tonight into tomorrow, and then as far east as Lake Michigan and the I-57 corridor in eastern Illinois for the weekend and right into early next week. Processing and fresh market growers with crops still at susceptible stages to corn earworm damage are encouraged to continue scouting and trapping efforts as there could be some isolated to potentially even some scattered flights especially into portions of the northern corn-growing region in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and also more isolated instances further south into Iowa and Illinois, as well, where these fields remaining would be most prevalent.

