Photo of the week: black cutworms

| | Black cutworms are thankfully relatively easy to control, and the list of effective products, several of them with low toxicity and/or labeled reduced risk, is growing. The major problem that these caterpillars present is that you frequently don't know you've got them until signs of their feeding damage show up. To avoid being surprised, you can monitor every one to two weeks with this relatively easy soap flush method. | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |…