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The adult moths move ngrtt> ward in successive flights each summer. Eggs are laid in masses of fifty to several hundred and hatch into larvae in 2-10 days, depending on temperature. The larvae complete their feeding in 2 Or 3 weeks They feed mostly at night. In sunny weather, they conceal themselves under foliage: of plants. If forced by hunger to seek other food, they maymig rate in the day time. The larvae look much like those of the true armyworm, and are difficult to distinguish from them. Fall armyworms cause different kinds of injury to different plants. Injury varies also according to age of the plants and developmental stage of the caterpillars. In young corn, the larvae eat buds and destroy plants. If plants have tasseled and ears have begun to form, they feed chiefly on tips of ears, and cut off the silks. At a still later stage, larvae bore into the sides of ears, or into the stalks Larvae attack sugarcane, and sorhgum in the same way they attack cornstalks. They injure grasses by eating off the leaves. They injure young cow peas, beans, and other garden plants by cutting them off at
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