CHICAGO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Populations of insects that feed on corn and other crops in the United States may flourish and expand to new territory as global climate change brings warmer summers and ...

As summer moves along, the season is running according to plan for many Arkansas crops -- including annual pest issues. Extension specialists and county agents across Arkansas are seeing an increase ...

MSU researcher Felicia Wu finds a a variety of corn that can repel the pest is being overplanted in states like Michigan and Ohio. A new study from a Michigan State University researcher says one of ...

A new study from North Carolina State University reveals a surprising transformation occurring in sweet corn fields. Common agricultural pests, the corn earworms (Helicoverpa zea), are developing the ...

Farmers’ most powerful weapons in the battle against the potentially devastating Western corn rootworm are being threatened as the insect evolves to eat corn plants engineered to produce its own ...

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 ...

Corn rootworms, pests responsible for billions of dollars in yearly crop losses, are evolving resistance that weakens even the latest biotechnology controls, according to a new study published in the ...

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 will ...

“Corn rootworms can cost U.S. farmers close to $1 billion each year. Bt corn has helped to reduce these costs and to decrease insecticide sprays, but evolution of resistance by the pests can diminish ...