date:Jun 07, 2013
ate's corn crops using traps baited with synthetic versions of female-produced pheromones. The traps are limited in that they don't predict damage because they don't catch female moths, which lay the eggs that damage crops.
Although the pheromone traps give a good presence/absence indication of which counties might expect to find black cutworms, it is impossible to predict if individual fields will be infested, so field scouting is essential.