Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-02-13 | Page 16 | Corn Borer is Grave Menace

I CORN BORER IS ES GRAVE mm MENACE 5 Insect Does Tremendous Damage Through Central States B By fly NEA XE Sen Ice COLUMBUS 0 Feb The 12 12 European corn borer now a per per- permanent permanent manent manent and uninvited guest on many American farms Is Ismall a I small insect Inse t a little more than one inch long when mature Officials of the tile Ohio Agri Agricultural al ah Experiment station who believe that the corn borer will never b be eradicated hive have made mado a careful study of this little Insect Their Investigation shows that the corn borer originally came from Europe and anti is thought to have entered 1 Canada In 1910 1916 It was was first discovered In the United States in 1916 1316 and has since spread rapidly INSECTS INSECT'S LIFE CYCLE The corn borer passes through four distinct stages egg larval larvae 1 and adult according to the s records The eggs hatch in fou four r to six day days and tho the young larvae which at first feed on leaves soon enter the stalks where they remain remain for forthe forthe the next 10 or 11 months The Tho following June Juno these full grown larvae which have have pasted the winter in the tho stalls stalks transform into small brown shuttle shaped shuttle objects known as the pupae After Arter spending about two weeks In the tho stage adult moths emerge ready to deposit their eggs on the new crop of corn It Is as a larva that the Insect tunnels up and down n the stalk stall or orInto orInto orinto Into the car ear of corn causing dam dam- damage dam ago ago age BORER SPREADS DS RAPIDLY The corn torn borer spreads usually usually ally by the flight of ot the moths However larvae may be transport transport- transported ed In the corn stalks as they are taken from front one district to an- an another another an another other The usual method of oC control Is to cut cot the tho corn stalks low and plow under the stubble When In tested in-tested tested stalks are arc pl plowed under the borers always come to the he surface where they die If it they are are unable to find Cind shelter