Yellow striped armyworm

This is a medium sized moth in the family (noctuidae). The moth has brown and white patterns with some dark blue. The hindwings are a pearly white. The moth also has an interesting trait, cannibalism. This moths caterpillars can eat their kind when the food is very scarce. This happens when they are major outbreaks that result in food scarcity. The armyworm's diet consists of alfalfa, asparagus, bean, beet, cabbage, clover, corn, cotton, cucumber, hops, grape, grass, jimsonweed, morning glory, onion, pea, peach, peanut, sweet potato, swiss chard, tobacco, tomato, turnip, wheat, watermelon, wild onion, and most other plants with soft leaves.