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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gabe Barnard

Caterpillars are destroying Missouri fields. But pheromones might stop them

ARROW ROCK, Missouri — It only took two days for caterpillars to destroy 10 acres of Duane Brune’s alfalfa.

Brune, who runs Pin Oak Farms in New Haven, said he was stepping on four or five every time he put his foot down.

“It was literally an army of worms crawling across the ground,” he said.

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