Host Plants
The adults feed on nectar from flowers. Weeds are often preferred to crops by the larvae. Some favoured species include bluegrass, curled dock, lambsquarters, yellow rocket and redroot pigweed. Among crop plants, the larvae favour most vegetable plants, alfalfa, clover, cotton, rice, sorghum, strawberry, sugarbeet, tobacco and sometimes grains and grasses.
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