Gardening is always interesting. I just lost my Chinese cabbage to cabbage loopers. Why? I wasn’t paying attention, and they got out of hand.

I usually keep a better eye on my plants, but with the heat … need I say more? And we’ve been getting a lot of calls to our Diagnostic Center about armyworms, so let’s talk about some of these insects.

First of all, why do we call them worms? Probably for the same reason we call blue flowers purple (this has always been a pet peeve of mine). But anyway, when we talk about armyworms, cabbage worms and web worms etc., technically they are not worms but are larvae/caterpillars of some type of flying insect.

Armyworms are the larval form of a moth. These moths have traveled here from Mexico or the Gulf Coast of Texas (thanks, Texas). Upon their arriva

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