| For the most part tachinid flies prey on caterpillars, including cutworms, gypsy moths, tent caterpillars, and the ever present cabbage looper. |
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| The cabbage looper larvae are a light green color with light stripes running down their backs. |
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| Large amounts of dark green pellets excreted by the feeding looper may stain cauliflower heads. |
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| Use decorative thread in the upper looper and adjust the machine for a short, rolled-edge stitch. |
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| For a stretchy chain stitch, use texturized nylon or polyester thread in the needle or looper. |
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| Thread the serger upper looper with decorative thread, then overlock the mesh edge with a 3-thread rolled hem stitch. |
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| The company is now field testing its use in reducing looper reproduction as well as evaluating a commercial version of the killing station. |
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| It took them not only from dead thrips larvae but from infected hemlock looper pupae, and wax moth larvae set out on the forest soil as bait. |
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| They also tested promising strains against the beet armyworm, black cutworm, cabbage looper, and imported cabbageworm. |
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| Collection of soybean looper and other noctuids in phenylacetaldehyde-baited field traps. |
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| Known as the celery looper virus, this naturally occurring microbe might be purified, then packaged and sold as an environmentally friendly viral insecticide, or biopesticide. |
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| Specific insects targeted by CRYMAX include cabbage looper, European corn borer, beet armyworm, bagworm, tent caterpillars, cankerworms, gypsy moth, and tussock moth. |
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