Univeristy of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) scientist Ana Maria Vélez is pioneering a genetic treatment to contain western corn rootworm. The research seeks to contain agricultural pests by targeting ...

AMES, Iowa – A researcher at Iowa State University is urging Iowa farmers to adopt a diverse range of pest management tactics to suppress the resistance of western corn rootworm to Bt corn, a widely ...

Sticky traps can be part of an adult scouting program, but visual counts on plants are often just as effective when done consistently. Monitoring soybean fields for rotation-adapted western corn ...

The largest problems with corn rootworm are in areas where continuous corn is grown. Where crop rotations are used in central Illinois, for example, western corn rootworm populations are “pretty low,” ...

URBANA -- Farmers are stuck. Western corn rootworm can destroy cornfields -- and profits -- but populations of the “billion-dollar bug” have stopped responding to insecticides and the genetically ...

Western corn rootworm typically dominates southern Minnesota's continuous corn fields, where it tends to outcompete its northern corn rootworm counterparts. In 2024, a variant of western corn rootworm ...

Corn rootworm (CRW) is an annual problem in fields across the Corn Belt, and 2024 is shaping up to be no exception. This year corn rootworm – along with other insects – appears to be showing up ...

An analysis of data covering 12 years and 10 U.S. Corn Belt states reveals that farmers suffer economic loss from the over-application of genetically engineered corn designed to combat rootworm pests.

REHOVOT, Israel, June 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Evogene Ltd. (NASDAQ:EVGN) (TASE:EVGN), a leading company for the improvement of crop productivity and economics for food, feed and fuel, announced ...

"A producer's best bet is to monitor for the beetle using traps," said John Obermeyer, a Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service entomology specialist. "That tool will let them know whether ...