Underground pests cost corn growers yield before symptoms show, and resistance is pushing growers toward insecticides with ...

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URBANA – Every year farmers spend a lot of money trying to control corn rootworm larvae, which are a significant threat to maize production in the United States and, more recently, in Europe.

After a long battle with corn rootworm, Midwest farmers thought they’d found relief in genetically modified seeds engineered to produce toxins deadly to the pest. But recent research confirms what ...

AMES, Iowa — Corn rootworms have been managed with crop rotation but some Northern and Western corn rootworms have adapted to corn-soybean rotations, says Jon Tollefson, chairman of the Iowa State ...

Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) scientist Ana Maria Vélez is pioneering a genetic treatment to contain western corn rootworm. The research seeks to contain agricultural pests by targeting ...

This is bad news for some farmers in the Eastern Corn Belt, who use crop rotations between soybeans and corn to control the pest. Because the new variant thrives in soybean fields, it increases the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Volunteer corn can act as a safe harbor for some pests by expressing lower doses of the insecticide found in newly planted corn, according to Purdue University researchers.

Corn rootworm, often called “the billion dollar bug,” is considered the greatest insect pest threat corn growers face. Damage from corn rootworm outpaces that from every other invertebrate pest ...

Today, with Ashley Dean and Angie Rieck-Hinz, I met Warren Pierson at FEEL to look for corn rootworm larvae. I predicted peak corn rootworm egg hatch for central Iowa this week based on accumulating ...