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![Cutworm (Agrotis sp.) Early instars are about 7-12 mm long. Fully grown caterpillars are 35-50 mm long. (c) A.M. Varela, icipe](/sites/default/files/912.400x400_40.jpeg)
![Black cutworm (Agrotis ipsilon). Pupae are brown to dark brown and approximately 17 to 25 mm in length and 5 to 6 mm in width. Pupae appear almost black in colour just before the moth emerges. (c) Ooi P., Courtesy of Ecoport (www.ecoport.org)](/sites/default/files/308.400x400.jpeg)
![Turnip moth (Agrotis segetum). The adult moth has a wingspan of 40 to 45 mm. (c) Ooi P., Courtesy of Ecoport (www.ecoport.org)](/sites/default/files/309.400x400.jpeg)
![Okra seedling damaged by cutworm caterpillar (right). Note healthy seedling on the left. Close-up of cutworm (inset) (c) A.M. Varela, icipe](/sites/default/files/1527.400x400_7.jpeg)
3.1.08 sr: notes ana: match the host plants list with the respective datasheets; although cutworms have many host plants, they are no major pests of all of them, therefore they have not been included in all datasheets of the above mentioned crops; s. by monitoring and decision making: pheromone traps are not available locally. economic threshold for which crop? where? under which conditions?;
natural enemies
Predators:1. Ground beetle
2. Lacewing
3. Praying mantis
4. Weaver ant
5. Nematodes: Steinernema carpocapsae and Steinernema feltiae (OISAT)
Ana: Delete. All this detail is not very useful to farmers, alternatively (if you want to keep it) move it to datasheet on natural enemies.
Braconid: Snellenius manilae (We do not know if this parasitoid is present in East Africa).
Notes for REVIEW
mh, 27.6.09 Header/host plants: Coffee and Pigeon pea were lost - though, on these crops a specific pestmodule is missing. Check info on pheromone trap (if its not included here it should be transfered to trap datasheet correctly) What happened to Erics comments re: natural enemies (oisat), spinosad and pyrethrum? Have reintroduced a lost part below of ashes (second sentence) and on 'stick'
Agrotis spp. (Agrotis segetum and A. ipsilon)