So how does a corn pest get the name western "bean" cutworm? "The pest first was identified as a problem in dry beans, and then began to show up in corn," Krupke said. "Corn and dry beans continue to ...

The sweet corn in the small town of Olathe has popped off the harvest season and there were other concerns than wildfire ...

Corn pest decline may save farmers money Date: December 19, 2013 Source: Penn State Summary: Populations of European corn borer (ECB), a major corn crop pest, have declined significantly in the ...

Bt-enhanced corn was developed to fight the European corn borer, which as the No. 1 pest of corn causes losses each year exceeding $1 billion in the United States. Bt corn uses a portion of the genes ...

A team that includes Rutgers University-New Brunswick scientists has unlocked some of the secrets of corn DNA, revealing how ...

The system, introduced by the French entomologist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur in 1735, is a measurement of heat ...

Peak rootworm hatch typically occurs in June across the Midwest, making it the critical period for growers to begin scouting ...

The Western Corn Rootworm’s resistance to this hybrid corn has exposed it to another layer of defense – the compounds that are emitted only to beckon nematodes when this resistant rootworm attacks.

Widespread planting of corn hybrids designed to combat corn rootworm, the crop’s most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology’s effectiveness and some farmers’ profits, ...

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 ...