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The western bean cutworm, Striacosta albicosta (Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a pest of corn and dry beans in the central United States. It has recently expanded its distribution from western Iowa in 2000 to western Ohio in 2006. There has been no research conducted on the basic flight characteristics of this insect. Understanding their basic flight characteristics may help improve management techniques and understand their dispersal potential. We hypothesis that the sex, age, mating status, and Microsporidia infection level affects the flight characteristics of the western bean cutworm. Adults were raised in laboratory colonies and then tethered and flown in the laboratory on a flight mill for one night. The effects that sex, age (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, and 9-10 days post emergence), and mating had on their flight characteristics were then determined. However, there were not enough infected adults to evaluate the effect that a Microsporidia infection had on their flight characteristics. Females flew 18.9±3.2 km, which was significantly further than males (13.2±2.1 km). The average total distance flown by virgin males was relatively low when they were 1-2 days old, then rapidly increased once they were 3-4 days old followed by a gradually decrease as age increased. Virgin females initially followed the same pattern, but their mean flight

Ecological and behavioral studies of the western bean cutworm (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in corn