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Iowa State University

The European Corn Borer

Department of Entomology

  • The Insect
    • Identification
    • Life Cycle and Generational Ecotypes
    • Pheromone Types and Pheromone Trapping
    • How Corn is Damaged
  • Management
    • Scouting Techniques
    • First Generation
    • Second Generation
    • Reaching a Management Decision
    • First Generation in Whorl-Stage Corn
    • Second Generation in Tassel-Stage or Later Corn
    • Cost-Benefit
    • Timing Insecticide Treatment
    • Application Equipment
    • Resistant Varieties
    • Biological Agents
    • Transgenic Corn
    • Weather
    • Cultural Practices
  • Commodities
    • Sweet Corn
    • Popcorn
    • Seed Corn
    • Peppers
    • Snap Bean
    • Cotton
    • Wheat
    • Potato
    • Other Crops
  • Predictive Models
  • Galleries

What does your caterpillar look like? Choose one of the following:

Southwestern Corn Borer (summer form)
Figure K1. Southwestern Corn Borer (summer form)


  • 5a. Body with large, black tubercles (Figure K1, above) . . . southwestern corn borer (summer form).
  • 5b. Body with pale brown tubercles or tubercles inconspicuous (Figure K2, below) . . . Southwestern Corn Borer (winter form).

Southwestern Corn Borer (winter form)
Figure K2. Southwestern Corn Borer (winter form)

Iowa State University

Department of Entomology

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