*2.9.4 Damage*

Black cutworm has a broad has range and feeds on all crops and pasture plants. Newly emerged crop seedlings are attacked by the full-grown larvae migrated from summer and autumn weeds. Species of the *Agrotis* are the worst destroyers that they may attack on the whole fields of cereal crops. Early instars of larvae feed on the tender tissues of the foliage, but as they grow, they suppose their classic cutworm 'felling' activity [84].
