Corn earworm
seeking warm or mild climates, since the cold reduces or halts their development. Damage symptoms The female lays small quantities of eggs, between one [...] hairs of the young corn and on the young kernels at the tip of the cob. During the third instar, the larvae turn cannibalistic, with only one caterpillar [...] through six larval instars, over a total period of two to three weeks, developing a greyish colour and a black cephalic capsule in the first stage, but