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 ...

Most corn earworms cannot survive the cold of a Northeastern winter, but each summer this sweet corn pest arrives back in the cornfields of the northeastern United States more quickly than most people ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Recent storms from the Gulf of Mexico have brought not only rains, but also corn earworm moths, said a Purdue University expert, and sweet corn growers need to be vigilant ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most potentially damaging problems facing sweet corn producers is controlling insects that feed on the ear. During the summer months, if you grow sweet corn, you need to watch for corn ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have a vegetable garden, you've more than likely run into one or all of these common pests, all hungry caterpillars when they do their damage. The most dramatic is the tomato hornworm, the most ...

Larvae of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith), and the corn earworm, Heliothis zea (Boddie), were exposed to excised foliage of an intermediately resistant Antigua corn that had ...

A 2-year study was conducted in both the field and laboratory on the silk-feeding responses of the corn earworm, Heliothis zea (Boddie), to selected corns when the exposed silks were either left ...