The European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hübner), is a significant pest of corn and once caused substantial yield losses and economic damage throughout the U.S. Corn Belt and most corn growing states east of the Rocky Mountain range. Damage and management costs were historically estimated to exceed one billion dollars annually. In 2021, European corn borer alone was responsible for the losses of about 338.6 thousand bushels of corn in the United States.
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The article was written by Wilfrid Calvin, a postdoc researcher for the University of Minnesota Department of Entomology, Tatum Dwyer, a student in the University of Minnesota Department of Entomology, and Fei Yang, a corn entomologist with the University of Minnesota-Extension.
