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 ...

There are quite a few steps that happen before you find Olathe Sweet Corn piled high in your local grocery stores. David Harold of Tuxido Farms in Olathe hopes people know the situation in which sweet ...

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 ...

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 here ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Tuxedo Corn Company is the largest grower of sweet corn in Colorado, but this year it’s facing a big obstacle. A devastating earworm infestation has affected nearly ...

A sure sign of summer is freshly harvested sweet corn. This vegetable is No. 1 in terms of acreage planted in Lancaster County, and probably many other counties in Pennsylvania as well. While the ...

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 ...

Researchers used genomics to investigate the genetic changes causing resistance to transgenic crops in field populations of the corn earworm, also known as cotton bollworm or Helicoverpa zea. They ...