Evaluate Insect Pressure If you don’t have heavy European corn borer or corn rootworm pressure, you might be able to forgo the use of a soil insecticide. That’s potentially a $30-plus savings ...

Introduced in the mid-1990s, the first Bt protein was primarily aimed at controlling European corn borer populations. Today, there are many Bt genes in the marketplace with various Cry proteins ...

a. The Bt toxin kills all insects. b. The Bt toxin kills European corn borer and other flying insects. c. The Bt toxin kills the European corn borer and its close relatives. d. The Bt toxin only kills ...

In those studies, biopesticide applications of Beauveria killed 12 to 58 percent of European corn borer and fall armyworm caterpillars. However, as with dent corn, the level of insecticidal ...

Interestingly, due to the introduction of Bt maize, recent research suggests there has been an areawide suppression of European corn borer populations (Hutchison et al. 2010). This is beneficial ...

including susceptible European corn borer, fall armyworm, southwestern corn borer and corn earworm. When commercially available, the new PowerCore Ultra Enlist corn will bring an additional mode ...

An emerald ash borer larva chews through the cambium layer of an infested ash tree in Armstrong, located in Emmet County. A buildup of feeding tunnels cut off the vascular or “plumbing system ...

EAB is now found in all 99 counties after being discovered in Emmet county. The final Iowa county has fallen to the Emerald ash borer invasion. The invasive insect that destroys ash trees was ...

NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — The North Dakota Forest Service (NDFS) is concerned for the health of the state’s ash trees after the ...

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