Weather-tracking tool helps track migrating insects
Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 06:00
in Biology & Nature
Corn earworms (also known as cotton bollworms) cost cotton producers an estimated $200 million a year in lost crops and control expenses, and they are notoriously hard to track because they migrate at night. Farmers worried about infestations have to make educated guesses about the pest's movements based on reports from other areas and past experience.