Insect Keys » Cereal Grains
     
 
     
 
Hard-bodied worms up to 20 mm long; shiny, yellow-brown to orange-brown; three pairs of small legs just behind head; usually with short, stout projections on last abdominal segment.

  Not shiny; color variable; soft-bodied caterpillars up to 40 mm long; cut plants off at or below ground level; insect may be above ground at night.