This year, there is a lot of damage on my outdoor blooming Hippeastrum. I assume the egg was laid into the early bud. Can anyone ID the species. Short of hand picking them, anyother ideas for control.
Name: Al F. 5b-6a mid-MI Knowledge counters trepidation.
It's an army worm larva. Not sure which - probably Spodoptera ornithogalli, compare:
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