Northern Corn Rootworm
feed on the 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 [...] late July and remain in corn fields until first frost. Females lay their tiny, white eggs in the soil at the base of corn plants in late summer/early fall [...] 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