The corn earworm causes the loss of more than 76 million bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting evidence that increasingly extreme weather events and temperatures will ...
Sweet corn is one of the few crops for which insect pests drive most of the pest management program. A number of caterpillar pests attack sweet corn, infesting ears and rendering the ear and the whole ...
OLATHE — Bright and early, Tuxedo Corn Co. workers hit the fields Wednesday, ready to harvest the iconic “Olathe Sweet” sweet corn. First, hours of hand-work awaited the harvesters, due to moth larvae ...
Sweet corn farms in Olathe are facing a slew of bitter problems as a rise in crop pests has drastically impacted this year’s harvest. An infestation of helicoverpa zea — better known to the public as ...
About two years ago, things didn’t look entirely good in John Harold’s sweet corn fields. Corn earworm moth larvae were hatching in the heat, diminishing how much of the signature “Olathe Sweet” sweet ...
The flavonoids that provide insecticide-like protection to some corn lines against corn earworm larvae also provide pigments to the plants that show up in the silks, husks and kernels. Pictured here ...
Q: My tomatillos are full of holes and I can’t figure out what happened. What should I do to prevent this next time? A: The culprit that damaged your tomatillos is the tomato fruitworm (Heliothis zea) ...
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 ...
The flavonoids that provide insecticide-like protection to some corn lines against corn earworm larvae also provide pigments to the plants that show up in the silks, husks and kernels. Pictured here ...
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