Corn Borer Images

• Damage
  • Shothole damage on whorl-stage corn
  • Early-instar damage to whorl leaves
  • Larva in corn ear shank
  • Tassel-stage corn with leaf-sheath-feeding near leaf collar
  • Stalk lodging from significant infestation with European corn borer
  • Direct feeding on mature kernels
• Life stages, including
  • Newly-laid eggs
  • Hatching larvae
  • Tunneling in stalk by second-generation larva
  • Fifth instar larva
  • Female and male moths (shown above)