That’s according to work conducted by the Corn Rootworm IPM Regional Working Group, which monitored beetle traps last summer to develop the “forecast” for 2023.

In first-year corn fields, 91% had very little activity and 35% had zero beetles. But in continuous corn, 35% of fields were over the threshold for number of beetles per trap per day that would ...

Additionally, areas with high northern corn rootworm beetle populations in the fall of 2022 are also likely to see issues in 2024, according to the Extension experts.

ST. LOUIS, May 05, 2025--Corn rootworm remains one of the most damaging pests in U.S. corn production, causing an estimated $1 billion in losses each year. To help farmers get ahead of this ...

A recent article in The Progressive Farmer sounded an alarm about the re-emergence of the corn rootworm, a beetle was once called the “billion dollar pest” due to the big impact it has had on valuable ...

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Western corn rootworm causes more than $1 billion damage a year in yield losses and control costs in the U.S., earning it the nickname "the billion-dollar bug." The rootworm larvae chew on the roots ...

URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- High atop a 30-foot-tall platform in the middle of a cornfield a few miles northeast of Urbana, the air is slightly cooler than on the ground.

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High atop a 30-foot-tall platform in the middle of a cornfield a few miles northeast of Urbana, the air is slightly cooler than on the ground, it's breezy and the ...

So basically, we were doing great and then all the sudden one day there's no corn in the cornfield. It's all soybeans. And we're just like, "We're western corn rootworm beetles, we don't eat soybeans.