Diaphania nitidalis: Pickleworm
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Description: Photographs and information on this pest of cucurbits, its distribution, life cycle and description, host plants, damage caused, natural enemies and management.
pickleworm - Diaphania nitidalis (Stoll) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) Pickleworm is a tropical insect which routinely survives the winter only in south Florida and perhaps south Texas. Peña et al. (1987a) documented the overwintering biology in south Florida, but overwintering has been observed as far north as Sanford, in central Florida, during mild winters. Pickleworm is highly dispersive, and invades much of the southeast each summer. North Carolina and South Carolina regularly experience crop damage by pickleworm, but often this does not occur until August or September. In contrast, northern Florida is flooded with moths each year in early June as warm, humid tropical summer weather conditions become firmly established. Although it regularly takes one or two months for the dispersing pickleworms to move north from Florida to the Carolinas, in some years they reach locations as far north as Michigan and Connecticut.
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| Page title: | pickleworm - Diaphania nitidalis |
| Keywords: | pickleworm Diaphania nitidalis Lepidoptera Pyralidae Capinera |
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| IP-address: | 128.227.242.110 |
WHOIS Info
| NS | Name Servers: NS.NAME.UFL.EDU 128.227.30.254 RNS.NAME.UFL.EDU 8.6.245.30 |
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| Date | activated: 25-Mar-1986 last updated: 03-Feb-2014 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |