Some farmers in Illinois are seeing large quantities of black triangular moths swarming their combines in soybean fields this harvest season.
“They are in the combines, along the combine windows. Kind of a curiosity this year.”
University of Illinois field crop entomologist Nick Seiter tells Brownfield they are adult green clover worms.
“Green clover worm is an insect we have in soybeans every single year. They feed on soybean foliage.