Cutworms

Other chewing insects, however, such as cutworms (which are caterpillars) come out at night to eat, and burrow into the soil during the day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sometimes mulches are hiding places for garden pests such as cutworms or sow bugs which can quickly destroy young seedlings (section ❋ Unknown (1991)

As Beatrix has reminded you, bad information about your organic fertilizer is just as dangerous as cutworms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

  “Oh, oh, oh,” I heard her say once and bent to see the cutworms in the ear of corn and it is bad and they are endless but as long as I am doing, death is not happening. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead, they were soon plagued by dysentery from bad water and besieged by cutworms in the corn, famished to the point that they let the soldiers have their way with the women and even some young girls, with a price exacted in the form of rations.12 ❋ Judy Pasternak (2010)

Survey and evaluation of effectiveness of the parasites, predators and pathogens of cutworms affecting fruits, vegetables, field crops and grasses: November ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

My fault: Extinction of ants and cutworms on my front lawn. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Coffee cans were used in the garden to protect young plants from wind and cutworms. ❋ Gumbo Lily (2007)

BTW, I broke the trowel in half using it to beat cutworms to death. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Plastic collars foil cutworms, ugly ground-burrowing caterpillars that chew through the stems of tender seedlings such as tomatoes and broccoli. ❋ Clark Frasier (2003)

Jo, the cutworms that fatten up in your neck of the continent may very well feed grizzlies in Yellowstone. ❋ Grouse (2002)

Neem products can replace any synthetic insecticides that are used to control the following insects: caterpillars, leaf miners, leaf rollers, cutworms, psyllids, aphids, borers, fruit flies, thrips, spider mites and so on. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Sadao 111 (alcoholic extract): the highly susceptible insects are cutworms, beet army worm, leaf-chewing caterpillars e.g. the diamond-back moth, leaf-rollers, leaf-miners, aphids and psyllids. ❋ Unknown (2000)

In Controlling Crop Pests and Diseases, Rosalyn Rappaport writes that army worms and cutworms, which migrate into crops by crawling, can be trapped and killed in ditches dug around plants. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Among seedling disease and insect pests are damping off, white grubs, grasshoppers and cutworms. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Toads eat as many as 10,000 insects and other pests in three months, including cutworms, slugs, crickets, ants, caterpillars and squash bugs. ❋ Unknown (1993)

Thoroughly flooding the garden bed drowns the cutworms or at least forces them to the surface where they are easier to find and destroy. 38 ❋ Unknown (1991)

During the day cutworms rest curled up under debris on the soil surface or up to 10 cm ❋ Unknown (1991)

[Mike] get the [plant] [phone] I'm bowed up like a cutworm ❋ Bowed Up Like A Cutworm (2017)

Dude I [woke up] looking like a [dang] cutworm, you should try it [sometime]. ❋ Iggysmalls123 (2021)