November is usually a pretty good month when you get a lot of moths around and they're going to be mixed species. People have probably been finding a lot of months around lights on buildings and they're mixed species; they're not all H. punctigera, so there's no need to panic.
He also commented that with a lot of marshmallow plants growing along roadsides, this suggests that there's going to be tip worm around this year, with prospects for Army worms as well.
Mr Tann stated that it's a good season and people have got to expect it to be a higher pest year. On the other hand, the beneficial populations are enormous, and a lot of the stuff they're collecting out of crops and other hosts is heavily parasitized, so pest mortality is very high, but he is sure they'll find H. punctigera in the system fairly frequently this year.
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