Since early July, we have been monitoring Heliothis traps baited with corn earworm pheromone at on 4 hemp fields and one sweet corn field in and around Montgomery, Co., Virginia. Below are the trap catch results. After a week or two of low catch, the moth activity has picked up especially at the Wall sweet corn.
Corn earworm moths per trap per week
| Week ending | Tru Harvest hemp 1 – Christiansburg, VA | Tru Harvest hemp 2 – Christiansburg, VA | Urban Hort Center – Hemp Blacksburg, VA | Wall Farm – sweet corn Blacksburg, VA | Homefield Farm – hemp Whitethorne, VA | Catawba hemp – Catawba, VA |
| 17-Jul | 2 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 0 | 4 |
| 24-Jul | 5 | 4 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 0 |
| 31-Jul | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 4 |
| 7-Aug | 8 | 13 | 0 | 30 | NA | 0 |
| 14-Aug | 7 | 4 | 5 | 188 | 18 | 3 |
