| 21. | Nehring said he's received isolated reports of what appear to be army worm moths, especially along the Illinois border.
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| 22. | Army worms also hit the Coastal Bend, but the farmers there were ready for them with new chemicals, Buehring said.
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| 23. | The army worm, a hairless, dark-green caterpillar, eats corn, soybeans and sometimes the grass in lawns and on golf courses.
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| 24. | "That's why they're called army worms, " said Dennis Nehring, the University of Wisconsin Extension agricultural agent for Rock County.
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| 25. | Beet army worms ruined as much as 75 percent of the Rio Grande Valley crop in southern Texas earlier this year.
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| 26. | The weather pattern _ drought followed by late summer rains _ is similar to 1996, the year of another army worm invasion.
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| 27. | The beet army worm caterpillar _ a devastating pest of corn and cotton _ drools volicitin as it chews on a leaf.
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| 28. | In corn, for instance, a chemical signal summons a wasp that deposits eggs inside army worms that feed on the corn plant.
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| 29. | The voracious beet army worm has also made an appearance in the Coastal Bend and has recently shown up in the South Plains.
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| 30. | An intense drought was also cited, because it reduced the army worms'natural food, prompting the critters to add more cotton to their menu.
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