Farmers in parts of the Midwest face a high potential for significant corn rootworm pressure in their fields this season. That’s according to work conducted by the Corn Rootworm IPM Regional Working ...
If you garden anywhere near a cornfield you have our sympathy. We have heard from some gardeners who are blaming soybean aphids for destroying the blossoms on flowers starting around the middle of ...
Mixed corn hybrids are driving rapid wing evolution in corn earworm, producing high-altitude fliers that amplify resistance across regions.
Farmers’ most powerful weapons in the battle against the potentially devastating Western corn rootworm are being threatened as the insect evolves to eat corn plants engineered to produce its own ...
Missouri corn and soybean growers are reporting growing numbers of Japanese beetles in crops in recent weeks, according to University of Missouri Extension state entomologist Ivair Valmorbida.
URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- High atop a 30-foot-tall platform in the middle of a cornfield a few miles northeast of Urbana, the air is slightly cooler than on the ground. It's breezy and the view of the ...
Eating a blend of non-toxic corn and genetically modified toxic corn can result in corn earworm pests (Helicoverpa zea) ...
Japanese beetles are a common pest of corn and soybeans in the eastern Corn Belt, but we have not received previous reports of injury in Nebraska corn or soybeans. However, there are reports of damage ...
Sugarcane beetles have been around a century or so, but rarely have been a pest of row crops in Virginia. This year several crop-damaging populations have shown up in Virginia corn fields and the ...
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Corn pests develop ‘fighter jet-like wings’ after eating mixed corn diets
The researchers compared the wing shapes of corn earworm moths raised on four different diets: a blend of toxic and non-toxic ...
Increased corn rootworm (CRW) pressure is projected to persist in corn crops throughout the Central and Northwest Midwest in 2021. But according to Wyffels Hybrids, growers can take steps to predict ...
URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- High atop a 30-foot-tall platform in the middle of a cornfield a few miles northeast of Urbana, the air is slightly cooler than on the ground. It's breezy and the view of the ...
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