ABSTRACT.1Predation by birds, crawling arthropods (ants, harvestmen, spiders), and social wasps (Vespula) spp. on introduced stocks ofHeliothis virescens(Fabricius) larvae was investigated in a oak‐hickory forest canopy in northwestern Arkansas (U.S.A.).2Wasps,Vespula maculifrons(Buysson) andV.squamosa(Drury), removed over 90% of the larvae. Repeated visits to a feeding site by the same marked wasps accounted for removal of either a single larva or all larvae. Larvae pinned (punctured) to artificial leaves were selected over 70% of the time by wasps when compared to attachments that did not puncture larvae; however, unpunctured larvae were taken.3Crawling arthropods accounted for low levels of predation, and birds did not appear to prey on larvae. Apparently wasps removed larvae rapidly and efficiently, thereby depleting the feeding sites before other predators discovered the larvae.4Although attaching larvae to artifical hickory leaves provided an easy method for placing larvae into the forest canopy, a lower percentage of larvae were removed from these leaves compared to natural hickory leaves. Moving feeding sites did not influence the number of larvae take