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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

Broken potato stem

Potato stem that has been broken due to tunneling by a European corn borer larva (M. R. Graustein).

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Wheat damage by European corn borer

Wheat damage by European corn borer. One stem has frass at the first node below the white head and the adjacent right rear stem has frass but is bearing a normal-colored head (J. W. Van Duyn).

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European corn borer larva infesting cotton boll

European corn borer larva infesting cotton boll (L. Jenkins).

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Broken cotton stem

Broken cotton stem and frass due to infestation by a European corn borer larva (L. Jenkins).

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Snap bean entrance holes of European corn borer

Entrance of European corn borer larvae, two pods on left, and Helicoverpa zea, three pods on right (M. R. Spellman).

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European corn borer larva in bell pepper

Larva of European corn borer in bell pepper that has premature reddening of fruit (C. E. Mason).

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Injury to bell pepper

European corn borer larvae chew holes in the side of a bell pepper when they exit the plant.

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Injury to bell pepper stem

Frass at the stem base of a bell pepper indicates tunneling by a European corn borer larva.

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Department of Entomology

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