Apamea is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.

[1] Some Apamea species are pest insects.

The larval Apamea niveivenosa is a cutworm known as a pest of grain crops in North America.

[2] The larva of A. apamiformis is the rice worm, the most serious insect pest of cultivated wild rice in the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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