The mess sitting before the lab worker looked like a frozen dinner gone horribly wrong: all bug legs, beetle backs and curlicue antennae. The lab worker was, in fact, looking at a sample of insects ...

Monsanto’s Bt corn was supposed to reduce pesticide use. The Environmental Protection Agency said as much when the corn, which is genetically modified to resist the crop-ravaging rootworm, debuted in ...

Western corn rootworm beetles strip tissue from the leaves of mutant corn. (Purdue University photo/Anoop Sindhu) Download Photo WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue and University of Illinois researchers ...

A pest that has caused more than $1 billion of damage to U.S. corn crops has made its way to the Okanagan. Tracy Hueppelsheuser with the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture said Wednesday that the Western ...

CORDOBA PROVINCE, Argentina (Reuters) - Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter ...

Since the 1990s, seed endowed with resistance to corn borers and rootworms has proven lethal against insects that had been gnawing away relentlessly at Nebraska corn farmers’ profits above and below ...

Corn on the cob usually comes with that stringy green husk wrapped around it. You may be tempted to buy pre-shucked corn to avoid it, but you really shouldn't.

The next time you go to cook up a juicy cob of locally-grown corn, you might want to investigate the husks more carefully for corn earworms, a type of fat, hideous larva known to feast on the starchy ...