Sclerotinia stem rot, or white mold, and other soybean and corn diseases have the potential for a big year with the wet June ...

Early corn earworm damage is evident on the leaf of a cotton plant (at left), and a sample of B. Bassiana, a parasitic fungus that attacks insects, is prepared for study. Photos courtesy of Hadi ...

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Corn grown alongside tomatoes isn't a good combination because caterpillars love them. "The corn earworm and the tomato fruit worm are actually the same insect (Helicoverpa zea) called by ...

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 million bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting evidence that increasingly extreme weather events and temperatures ...

How to stop an earworm in your head If you're one of the many people who don't enjoy earworms, a good way to get rid of them is to distract yourself with something else that catches your attention.

"Corn can uniquely be counted as either a grain and a vegetable, depending on the form," Washington, D.C.-based dietitian and diabetes educator Caroline Thomason, RD, CDCES, tells USA TODAY.

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 ...

The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track specifically designed to banish "Jingle Bells," "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and other much-too-catchy seasonal tunes. Why it works: If the ...