Black light trap captures of corn earworm (bollworm) moths remain low, averaging zero to 2 moths per night in area traps.  The brown marmorated stink bug averaged zero to 2.3 per night.  Thanks to Livvy Preisser and Neil Clark (Southampton), Mary Beahm (Warsaw), Mike Parrish and Ray Clarke (Dinwiddie), Scott Reiter (Prince George), and the Tidewater AREC Entomology crew for their reports this week. Please click on the attached pdf at the end of this sentence for the weekly data tables for these two insects. BLT_21_Jul_2016

Our pyrethroid resistance monitoring of corn earworm (bollworm) in the adult vial tests indicate an average survival rate of 38.6% for a 24-hour exposure to 5 micrograms of cypermethrin.  Weekly percent survival has ranged from approximately 36-45%.