Weird! Corn worm in my sunroots

Kind of a weird one, I was removing some sunroot plants yesterday, and a stalk broke, and a worm was deep inside it. I looked it up, it's a corn ear worm, like the picture below.
How did it get inside the stalk of a growing sunroot? I looked, I saw no damage on it. Wonder if they all had worms in them and I just didn't notice?
Weird....

Strange, no damage showing on the stalk.  Do you have a corn patch???  If you don't grow corn, maybe that was all it could find?  Did you pull the entire plant out?
Could the critter have entered, bored into the plant from underground, like at a different life stage??

Maybe the bug GPS app was down and it lost its way!

Please keep us posted with any updates.  I would really like to know what you can discover with this weird critter!

I would have to check all the stalks on the ones I removed.  And keep a close eye on the remaining plants.


Peace

Corn earworm has a wide host range; hence, it is also known as "tomato fruitworm," "sorghum headworm," "vetchworm," and "cotton bollworm." In addition to corn and tomato, perhaps its most favored vegetable hosts, corn earworm also attacks artichoke, asparagus, cabbage, cantaloupe, collard, cowpea, cucumber, eggplant, ...

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/corn_earworm.htm

Anne Miller wrote:

Corn earworm has a wide host range; hence, it is also known as "tomato fruitworm," "sorghum headworm," "vetchworm," and "cotton bollworm." In addition to corn and tomato, perhaps its most favored vegetable hosts, corn earworm also attacks artichoke, asparagus, cabbage, cantaloupe, collard, cowpea, cucumber, eggplant, ...

https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/veg/corn_earworm.htm

Oh CRAP. That's what's killing my cantaloupes and cukes, I bet.
Thank you!!  It's now on my "kill with prejudice" list.

Ahhhh Pearl, that's what I like to hear.  Death,Death, Death.  "At my signal unleash Hell"

Go get 'em!!!

That only applies to my gardens and flowers!  I'm fairly cool with most everything else.

I gave up the lean, mean, green killing machine stuff many years ago. (well mostly, but there are stories that perhaps should never be told and allowed to fade)


Peace