Many home gardeners understand a sad truth about the corn earworm: the little critter loves sweet corn just as much as humans do. It creates a yearly battle to fight back the pesky insect. The adult ...

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 ...

Researchers are hoping corn earworms skipped health class in high school so they can curb their growth with a new idea after the insects became more resistant to the common insecticides farmers have ...

Sweet corn season is here, and there's nothing like eating freshly harvested ears – unless you find a worm when peeling back the husks! That unwanted intruder is usually the corn earworm. These ...

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 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 ...

OLATHE, Colo. — Hot summer days and cool summer nights – it's part of the magic that happens behind the delicious sweet corn grown in Olathe located on the Western Slope of Colorado – but this year's ...

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 ...

Eating a blend of non-toxic corn and genetically modified toxic corn can result in corn earworm pests (Helicoverpa zea) developing longer, more narrow and more tapered wings – shaped like the wings of ...

The Grains Research and Development Corporation has warned growers that large flights of the moth have occurred in the past two weeks, resulting in significant egg lays and larval populations in ...

A new study from N.C. State University shows how the temperature of soil could help farmers predict the spread of certain common crop pests. The study's focus was on corn earworms, a caterpillar ...