Fruits and Vegetables:
* Tomatoes: They burrow into tomatoes, causing them to rot.
* Peppers: Similar to tomatoes, they damage peppers, causing them to become unmarketable.
* Beans: They damage the pods and seeds of beans, especially lima beans.
* Cotton: They are a major pest of cotton, feeding on the bolls and reducing cotton yield.
* Peanuts: They feed on the developing peanuts in the ground.
* Soybeans: They damage the pods and seeds of soybeans, particularly in the early stages of development.
* Green beans: They feed on the pods, causing them to become damaged and unmarketable.
* Okra: They can damage the pods and flowers of okra plants.
* Squash: They can damage the blossoms and fruits of squash plants.
Other Crops:
* Sunflowers: They can feed on the developing seeds of sunflowers.
* Tobacco: They damage the leaves and buds of tobacco plants.
* Sorghum: They can feed on the developing seeds of sorghum.
* Wheat: They can damage the heads of wheat, especially during the milk stage.
In addition to these, corn earworms can also feed on weeds such as:
* Cocklebur:
* Velvetleaf:
Understanding the wide range of plants that corn earworms can eat helps in managing this pest in a variety of agricultural settings.
