‘Weird’ weather playing role in low Colorado miller moth migration

This year is shaping up to be a miller moth bust not seen in Colorado in decades.

Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University emeritus professor in entomology and extension specialist, has lived in Fort Collins since 1984, and he can’t remember a year with so few miller moths, the adult stage of the army cutworm.

“Never seen it like this,” Cranshaw told the Coloradoan. “This has been an extraordinarily weird year. The bottom line is there isn’t going to be much of a miller moth problem this year.”…

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