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Spring ushers in sunlight, blossoms, and the eager buzz of life returning to the garden. Amid this cheer lurks a quiet menace capable of turning careful planting into heartbreak overnight. Cutworms ...

If you've ever walked into your vegetable garden and discovered plant after plant chopped down to the ground, you've been ambushed by cutworms. These ordinary-looking caterpillars can dash all your ...

University of Missouri Integrated Pest Management has issued its first pest alerts of the growing season. MU Extension state field crops and forage entomologist Ivair Valmorbida says corn and wheat ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — An insect that attacks maturing corn could make life more difficult for Eastern Corn Belt farmers in the years to come. The western bean cutworm (WBC) has migrated into Indiana ...

In this week’s Boots In The Field podcast, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie addresses agronomic problems -- insects, diseases and rodents -- he’s anticipating now and how you stop them in ...

Colorado State University Extension pheromone trap based monitoring is showing the emergence of western bean cutworm moth in northeastern Colorado at the moment. According to the historic data, the ...

As May winds down, Ken Ferrie is taking a look at some important agronomic decisions farmers can make now to improve the performance of their corn, soybean and wheat crops. Flowering in wheat is ...

Unfortunately, pests are not a seasonal problem and they aren’t limited to ants and spiders. There are tons of little unwelcome creatures looking to find shelter inside your home, and it’s important ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Late planting, weeds, the practice of no-till and the fact the many Indiana fields are in a corn-following-soybean rotation all combine to favor an increase in black cutworm ...