Corn earworms from Tobacco budworms? In Wagner, pg 396 and 397 these look much more like tobaccos, and not at all like corn earworms, but then he talks about looking at them microscopically!

A note from Jerry Fauske (25 March 2015): "The larva #15050 which I believe is H. phloxiphaga- based on comparing it to larva pics in Hardwick’s Monograph of the Heliothentinae. The placement and size of the black tubercles is pretty diagnostic. While the immature stage of H. acesias are largely unknown, the pupa is apparently like H. oregonica which would lead me to believe that the larva might not be similar to that of H. phloxiphaga." --passed on my Carl D. Barrentine

Contact Information:

Dr. Gerald Fauske, research specialist, collection manager, NDSIRC

School of Natural Resource Sciences
Department of Entomology - Dept. 7650
P.O. Box 6050
Fargo, ND 58108-6050
Systematics lab (701) 231 9491
Entomology (701) 231-7581
Fax: (701) 231-8557

Websites:
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~gefauske/ndmoths/home.htm
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~gefauske/Fleabeetles/alticini_home.htm
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~gefauske/hopper/orthoptera_home.htm
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~gefauske/prairieinsects/

"No man [one] can be truly called an entomologist. . .the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The pest at the breakfast table.