Other vegetable crops include cabbage, celery, and potato. Larvae are also known to damage tomato fruit in other parts of the world. Other hosts are carnation, chrysanthemum and sugarcane.
Much damage is done to young row crops.
Although not an active climber as one or two other cutworms, it has been responsible for considerable damage to grape buds in early spring and less often to orange buds. In addition, this species is known to climb the stems of other herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees and eat buds, leaves and fruits of vegetables and orchard and vineyard crops. On celery the cutworms commonly feed on the inside of the stalk near the crown of the plant. In temperate regions this species is known to overwinter as pupae, however in Hawaii there are 4-5 continuous generations occur per year. EGGS Eggs are laid in masses comprising of 30 to 360 eggs.