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Turfgrass Insects of the United States and Canada

Patricia J. Vittum

Print publication date: 2020

Print ISBN-13: 9781501747953

Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: January 2021

DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501747953.001.0001

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Lepidopteran Pests: Family Crambidae (Formerly Pyralidae), Subfamily Crambinae

Lepidopteran Pests: Family Crambidae (Formerly Pyralidae), Subfamily Crambinae

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(p.107) 8 Lepidopteran Pests: Family Crambidae (Formerly Pyralidae), Subfamily Crambinae
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Turfgrass Insects of the United States and Canada
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Patricia J. Vittum

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Cornell University Press
DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501747953.003.0008

This chapter addresses sod webworms, which refers to a large number of grass-infesting moths and larvae of the family Crambidae (formerly Pyralidae), subfamily Crambinae. Adults are often called lawn moths because of their habitat or snout moths because of the prominent labial palpi that extend in front of the head. Most of the turfgrass-infesting species originally were placed in the genus Crambus, which is distributed practically worldwide. About 100 species are recognized in North America. The six most important sod webworm species in the eastern temperate regions of the United States include the bluegrass webworm; the striped sod webworm; the silver-striped webworm; the larger sod webworm; the corn root webworm; and the subterranean webworm, also known as the cranberry girdler. Sod webworms restrict their feeding, with rare exceptions, to plants of the family Gramineae, and turfgrasses serve as ideal host plants. The chapter then considers tropical-region sod webworms.

Keywords:   sod webworms, grass-infesting moths, Crambidae, Crambinae, lawn moths, snout moths, turfgrass-infesting moths, Crambus, temperate sod webworms, tropical sod webworms

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