Larvae of Maruca testulalis were found to be randomly dispersed on flowers of cowpea cultivar Vita 1. Three models based on Taylor's power law, Lloyd's mean crowding and the negative binomial were tested to find out the best fit for developing a sequential sampling plan for this pod borer. Taylor's power law model gave the best fit whilst the negative binomial gave the least. A sequential sampling plan and a table of optimum sample size for use in the field were therefore developed, based on the random distribution.