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Facts & Information on Corn Pests

YOUR GUIDE FOR CORN INSECT PEST MANAGEMENT

From perennial to occasional pests, we guide you through best practices to manage against your crops insect pests.

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Links to relevant KSRE publications

  • Western Corn Rootworm: Kansas Areawide Management Program Summary
  • Identifying Caterpillars in Corn and Sorghum
  • Corn Production Handbook

Planting Time Decisions

  • Black Cutworm
  • Chinch Bug
  • Corn Borers
  • Corn Leafhopper
  • Corn Rootworm
  • Seed Corn Beetle and Seed Corn Maggot
  • Western Bean Cutworm
  • Wireworms and White Grubs

Postemergence Corn Pests

Aphids
  • Corn Leaf Aphid
Beetles
  • Billbug
  • Corn Flea Beetle
  • Corn Rootworm
  • Southern Corn Leaf Beetle
Miscellaneous Pests
  • Chinch Bug
  • Corn Leafhopper
  • Grasshoppers
  • Spider Mites
Worms
  • Black Cutworm
  • Corn Earworm
  • European Corn Borer
  • Fall Armyworm
  • Garden Webworm
  • Southwestern Corn Borer
  • Stalk Borer
  • True Armyworm
  • Western Bean Cutworm

Corn Insect Management

  • General Comments on Corn Insect Pest Management

Department of Entomology

123 W. Waters Hall

1603 Old Claflin Place, Manhattan, KS 66506-4004

785-532-6154 | 785-532-6232 fax | entomology@k-state.edu

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