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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

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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European corn borer pupa in cornstalk

European corn borer pupa in cornstalk (M. E. Rice).

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European corn borer egg mass

European corn borer egg mass with numerous eggs on underside of corn leaf (M. E. Rice).

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