Over the past few days, I have seen 300+ cabbage looper moths in traps next to fields that aren’t even out of the ground yet, and been texted twice about flea beetle damage. It seems it will be a busy year for brassica pests!

cone trap with about 60 visible looper moths inside
First indication of probable outbreak – May 8th 2019: too early to see this many

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Update: May 16th

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