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Yellow-striped Armyworm

Spodoptera ornithogalli

Description:

Size: 25mm; dark brownish green worm was found in sweet potato bed, brown with two lighter colored parallel lines running vertically from top to bottom and darker brown half circles on the inside of the lines on each segment, faint lighter colored lines also horizontally across each segment, lighter colored spots running down the sides (spiracles?); light colored "V" on its head

Habitat:

found in sweet potato bed, on urban school campus

Notes:

causing leaf damage

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Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

Spotted on Sep 11, 2018
Submitted on Nov 9, 2018

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