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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

All immature stages of the European corn borer are attacked by natural enemies that contribute to reducing its densities.

Cocoons of Macrocentrus grandii

Cocoons of Macrocentrus grandii that have formed and are nearly covering the remains of a European corn borer larva (S. Udayagiri).

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Eriborus terebrans female

Eriborus terebrans female, a parasite of European corn borer larvae in the north central region of the United States (D. A. Landis).

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Lydella thompsoni puparium

Lydella thompsoni puparium next to the cadaver of a fifth instar European corn borer in potato (C. E. Mason).

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A Macrocentrus grandii female

A Macrocentrus grandii female preparing to insert an egg into a European corn borer larva (S. Udayagiri).

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Egg parasitism

European corn borer egg mass much darker than the blackhead stage typical of egg parasitism by a tiny Trichogramma species (C. E. Mason).

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Egg mass parasitized by a Trichogramma nubilale wasp

Egg mass of European corn borer being parasitized by a tiny Trichogramma nubilale wasp (C. E. Mason).

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Beauvaria bassiana, a pathogenic fungus

Dead larva of a European corn borer that was killed by Beauvaria bassiana, a pathogenic fungus (M. E. Rice).

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Lydella thompsoni adult fly

Lydella thompsoni adult fly, which parasitizes European corn borer (R. G. Weber).

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Lady beetle larva

Lady beetle larva, a predator of European corn borer eggs (M. E. Rice).

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Adult lady beetle

Adult lady beetle, Coleomegilla maculata (M. E. Rice).

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Department of Entomology

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