Northern Corn Rootworm
January 1, 1970
feed on a variety of plants, their larvae survive exclusively on the roots of corn. This allows producers to control infestation, for the most part, by [...] dormant in the soil for two winters. This allows the larvae to effectively skip the field’s soybean rotation (when they would starve for lack of their corn host) [...] foliage, pollen, silks and developing kernels of corn, with the following consequences: When corn silks are cut all the way back to the ear and when beetle