TREE DISEASES AND PESTS
COMMON TREE PESTS
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This worm is also known as the tomato fruit worm and causes serious injury to sweet corn and tomatoes.
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Cutworm
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Corn earworm
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Earthworm
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Squash Bug
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Tomato fruitworm is also called cotton bollworm and corn earworm.
Detailed explanation-2: -The worms, called corn earworms, are one of the biggest headaches for organic corn growers because it is extremely difficult to prevent them using sustainable practices. Corn earworms are the larval form of an adult moth, which lays a single egg in the green silk of a corn stalk.
Detailed explanation-3: -Corn earworm, Fall armyworm, and European corn borer caterpillars can all infest the ears of sweet corn. The most reliable way to identify them is to examine the heads of the caterpillars. Corn earworm caterpillars have a uniform light yellow-brown head.
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