Plan to assess new pest management practices this season and then adjust to reduce rootworm risk in next year’s corn crop.

In the matter at hand, there are cucumber beetles and corn rootworm beetles. They occur in several different genuses that have several hundred beetles in the same family. Only a few species are pests ...

Farmers’ most powerful weapons in the battle against the potentially devastating Western corn rootworm are being threatened as the insect evolves to eat corn plants engineered to produce its own ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Japanese beetles are back in Missouri fields and may emerge in greater numbers soon, possibly posing threats to soybean and corns crops, officials warn. The University of Missouri’s ...

The high number of Japanese beetles emerging might result in some corn and soybean fields or parts of some corn and soybean fields needing to be treated with an insecticide. This is not a message to ...

A Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment researcher is leading a new project that could help farmers ...