Hurricanes/tropical storms could threaten remaining corn fields
September 2nd, 2010
Corn moth
Warm, dry weather continues to mature late-planted corn rapidly and keep moths flying into our fields. Moth counts were somewhat higher this week, as we would expect with this stretch of weather; but these insects are finding much less fresh silking corn around as the harvest season speeds to an end. Two hurricanes/tropical storms are heading our way over the next week or so, which could threaten remaining corn fields with flooding, lodging from high winds, and lots of corn earworm and armyworm moths brought up on the storms from the south.
Tags: corn
Posted in Agriculture