Corn Earworm
Low corn earworm migration risks are predicted both Sunday and Monday nights across a large portion of the corn-growing region from Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota east as far as lower Michigan, western Ohio, and into Kentucky as rather strong south to southwest winds east of a cold front are likely to remain persistent and also where precipitation may serve as insect drop zone regions for any migrating insects. While the overall threat to any crops is low at this point, thus just a Low migration risk even given a favorable weather pattern, growers should be on the lookout for new corn earworm moth flights as these early flights could find suitable hosts and produce generations earlier in the growing season that may affect especially garden and earliest-planted commercial and processing/fresh market crops. Corn earworm have already been captured in portions of the corn-growing region this spring, so trap monitoring is recommended to stay on top of local populations despite the early point in the growing season.

