Given the corn price outlook, this is not the year to ignore any “sometimes a problem” pest like corn stalk borer -- especially if you’ve encountered it in corn before. It has a tendency to persist in ...

Common stalk borer damages corn stalks. From July through August, producers and researchers unexpectedly observed significant damage resembling European-corn-borer injury along the edges of several ...

Crop consultants say farmers should match insect traits to field risk levels when lenders demand lower seed costs.

LOS ANGELES — Planting genetically modified, pest-resistant corn can provide a halo effect — offering protection from insects to nearby corn plants that have not been engineered to kill bugs, ...

Populations of European corn borer (ECB), a major corn crop pest , have declined significantly in the eastern United States, according to Penn State researchers. The decline suggests that the use of ...

The number of moths captured in fields this spring is a good indication corn growers in the Midwest need to make preliminary plans to address insect feeding this season. Black Cutworm And True ...

INDUCTION of diapause, at 65° F., in the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hbn.), requires that last-instar larvæ be exposed to photoperiods of 9.5 to 14 hr. of light a day for about 3 weeks; ...

Fifty years of records from cornfields in five Midwestern states show that genetically modified corn has dramatically reduced populations of a common corn-eating worm, the European corn borer. That ...