PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) — If it seems like you’re seeing an unusually large number of moths in the past week, you are.
SDSU Extension entomologist Dr. Amanda Bachmann says the moths are the western bean cutworm.
She says the arrival of the moths isn’t unique, particularly to the central part of South Dakota.
Bachmann says the western bean cutworm adults won’t damage gardens or flowers in towns, but the juvenile caterpillars might.
(Jody Heemstra, DRG News, contributed this report.)
