Scouting Guides for Problems of Vegetables
Scouting Guides for Problems of Vegetables

Yellow Striped Armyworm on Solanaceous Crops

Yellow Striped Armyworm on Solanaceous Crops

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Yellow striped armyworm (Spodoptera ornithogalli). Yellow striped armyworms are similar to beet armyworms but are generally brown in color with a yellow strip and triangular black marks on their back. Management is the same as that for tomato fruitworm.

Yellow striped armyworm damaging tomato fruit.

Yellow striped armyworm damaging tomato fruit.

(Photo: UK Vegetable IPM Team)

   

Yellow striped armyworm small larvae on tomato foliage.

Yellow striped armyworm small larvae on tomato foliage.

(Photo: UK Vegetable IPM Team)

   

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