Halloween, that one magical, mystical time of year when ghosts, goblins and lots and lots of sugar come out to play. Don’t get us wrong, we love Halloween and all the sweet treats that come with it, ...

Researchers are hoping corn earworms skipped health class in high school so they can curb their growth with a new idea after the insects became more resistant to the common insecticides farmers have ...

HUGHESVILLE, Pa. (CBS)-- A high school student in northeastern Pennsylvania got more than he bargained for in his cafeteria lunch. The Hughesville High School student found a worm in his popcorn ...

FLORENCE — A cornfield can be an unfriendly host for insect pests, and scientists such as Clemson’s Francis Reay-Jones are striving to keep it that way. There are almost 275,000 acres of corn planted ...

One of industrial agriculture's biggest GMO crops may have just backfired. Scientists have confirmed that corn-destroying rootworms have evolved to be resistant to the Bt corn engineered to kill them.

The garden today looks a little bare to me, but when I look back at a post from about a year ago it looked about the same.I’ve harvested onions and garlic and some f the fall crops are still coming in ...

In a giant case of “we told you so”, a group of scientists from Iowa State University published a report this week citing evidence that corn rootworms have evolved to become resistant to genetically ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A major corn-destroying pest was a minor nuisance in Indiana this year. The European corn borer, a wormlike insect that tunnels through cornstalks and chews leaves, tassels and ...

One of Colorado's most beloved crops is in trouble again. Moth larvae are infesting Olathe sweet corn, grown in a small pocket on the state's Western slope. Farmers are trying new methods to fight ...

Southern Africa has been struck by a pestilence so severe farmers have invoked plagues of biblical proportions. Hungry caterpillars called fall army worms are on the move across the continent from ...