Population growth statistics and age-specific life table parameters were estimated for the black cutworm, BCW, Agrotis ipsilon (Hufn), on nine host plants,( four of tested host plants are field crops and five are weeds). These are as follows: 1) Maize, Zea mays, 2) Faba beans, Vicia faba, 3) Cotton, Gossypium barbadense, 4) Egyptian clover, Ttifolium alexandrinum, 5) Castor-oil beans, Ricinus communis, 6) Bindweed, Convolvulus arvensisi, 7) Gargir, Sativa mill, 8) Cheeseweed, Malva parviflora, and 9) Greater ammi, Ammi majus. Results indicated that the host preference to BCW could be arranged as follows: field bindweed, clover, cotton, castor-oil beans, maize, gargir, greater ammi, cheeseweed, and faba beans.