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The corn earworm (cotton bollworm, tomato fruit worm), Heliothis zea (Boddie), is one of the most destructive pests of many valuable crops in the United States and in Central and South America. Estimated losses within the United States attributable to this pest exceed $500 million annually (unofficial estimates of USDA entomologists per authors’ survey).
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McLaughlin, J.R., Mitchell, E.R., Cross, J.H. (1981). Field and Laboratory Evaluation of Mating Disruptants of Heliothis Zea and Spodoptera Frugiperda in Florida. In: Mitchell, E.R. (eds) Management of Insect Pests with Semiochemicals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3216-9_21
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