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 ...

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 ...

Olathe sweet corn, one of Colorado’s most famous summer treats, has been slow to hit stores this year as moth-laying worms continue to plague fields. But local farmers and researchers are working hard ...

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 ...

Corn earworm moths have appeared in some southwest Idaho fields, the Pacific Northwest Pest Alert Network reports. Counts are fairly low historically, and Canyon County fields south of Lake Lowell and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Florida Entomologist, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Mar., 1998), pp. 98-104 (7 pages) Females of the Corn earworm moth, Helicoverpa zea Boddie, were induced to produce sex pheromone during the photophase, when ...