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Tobacco Budworm Moth

Heliothis virescens

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This bug has been reportedly found in the following regions:

Scottsdale, Arizona

Ceres, California

Hayward, California

San Jose, California

Sunnyvale, California

Tulare, California

Fort George G Meade, Maryland

Billerica, Massachusetts

Congers, New York

Albany, Oregon

Millersburg, Oregon

Georgetown, South Carolina

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lori_k

Tulare, CA (Zone 9a) | October 2013 | Negative

Ravenous caterpillar creatures that love my geraniums and petunias, completely destroying them if not controlled. They leave tiny black droppings under potted plants - a sure sign the plants are infested.

dballesty

Congers, NY (Zone 6b) | June 2013 | Negative

Starting in June a small white butterfly lays an egg in rose buds, geranium buds and petunia buds, from which small worms emerge by eating their way out thereby destroying many of the flowers.

tashmoore

Fort George G Meade, MD | March 2009 | Negative

also eats rosebuds.

The color of the catapiller will vary depending on what color flower it has been eating, pink or purple is supposidly from eating red flowers.