While the weevil populations were practically eliminated in the Rio Grande Valley and the San Angelo region, the beet armyworm was not suppressed.
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Summy and Raulston said the malathion caused " a disruption of the beneficial insect complex that normally suppresses the beet armyworm ."
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Feasting in anonymity on area lawns, particularly on the Kansas side, are billions of fall armyworms with a ravenous taste for grass.
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Tibor Pechan of Mississippi State University and colleagues studied a strain of corn resistant to attacks from fall armyworm caterpillars and southwestern corn borers.
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Small caterpillars, known as armyworms, devoured much of the Concho Valley cotton crop around San Angelo and in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
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"If you've got plenty of beneficials, then the armyworms aren't going to take over, " he said.
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However, unless there's a repeat of this year's weather, chances are armyworms won't be as abundant next year.
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Rodney Ripple, who farms near Wall, showed a field that was crawling with fall armyworms, yellow-striped armyworms, cabbage loopers and aphids.
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Rodney Ripple, who farms near Wall, showed a field that was crawling with fall armyworms, yellow-striped armyworms, cabbage loopers and aphids.
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But the theory that armyworm moths, which can lay 300 eggs at a time, were blown northeast by the tropical storm in June is not easily proved.
