This document focuses on the primary sweet corn pest, the corn earworm. Fall armyworm typically can be found in the region starting in mid-July and management may be necessary prior to silking. Sap ...

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 ...

E. Smith), and corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea Boddie, perennially cause leaf and ear damage to corn in the southeastern USA. Development of transgenic hybrids expressing insecticidal endotoxin from ...

The corn earworm causes the loss of more than 76,000 bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting ...

Select corn lines contain compounds that sicken, kill major crop pest The compounds, called flavonoids, have an insecticidal effect on corn earworm larvae Date: February 26, 2025 Source: Penn ...

The corn earworm causes the loss of more than 76,000 bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting evidence that increasingly extreme weather ...