#black cutworm

[fuchsianreactor]

ugh... I'm overdue for a grooming

I remember when I could go for a grooming... back in the old days I was voted 'most luscious larva' in school. The worm with the perm. Oh yes I could turn heads back then. Now look at me... I can only spend my days lounging around, having to wait in dread until my bald spots grow bigger than me!

My nights I spend dreaming--of my fluff, of course... oh, look--I found a photo of me from the good old days. This was a candid you know. I always knew I could've been a model (you can see the talent here! You can't teach that) if not for those feckless, faithless parents of mine who forced me to 'graduate medical school with honours' and 'make something of myself'. There went my future I suppose. So yes, take yourself away from me now - like everyone else! - and go for that grooming... but remember! It could happen to you.

[usgsbiml]

And now, pupae on parade:  The Black Cutworm ( Agrotis ipsilon) in meditative state as it awaits to emerge and abandon its snowmoth winter lifestyle in the South to disperse northward with the primary goal to destroy the corn crop of all the central states and provinces.  After a couple generations (and plenty of destruction) it moves south again.  Repeat.  It strikes me that at some point it will evolve into the beautiful color of a monarch butterfly, stop eating corn, and do something reasonable for a lep that wants to be loved by humans and just eat milkweed, or better, mugwort, which is irritatingly difficult for me to control in my yard.  Though I suppose that this is only reasonable to me, a human.  This reminds me of perhaps my favorite quote by Twain (have I mentioned this before?:  "Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand- I mean a man with the least little bit of common sense."  

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[dendroica]

black cutworm, top_2014-06-04-19.53.29 ZS PMax by Sam Droege on Flickr.

Agrotis ipsilon - Black Cutworm - Another major crop pest. This species moves into northern parts of North America after overwintering in Texas and Mexico and then pulls off a couple of generations in weedy fields and particularly impacting newly planted corn. Yet another pest that looks rather beautiful when viewed up close.

Also known as Ipsilon Dart.