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peer-reviewed research article

Control of the corn earworm on sweet corn in Southern California

authors

G. G. Kennedy, University of California
H. N. Nakakihara, University of California
E. R. Oatman, University of California

publication information

California Agriculture 29(8):4-5. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v029n08p4. August 1975.

author affiliations

G. G. Kennedy is Assistant Professor and Assistant Entomologist, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside. H. N. Nakakihara is Staff Research Associate IV, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside. E. R. Oatman is Professor and Entomologist, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside.

abstract

Abstract Not Available – First paragraph follows:

The corn earworm, Heriothis zea (Boddie), also known as he tomato fruitworm and cotton bollworm, is a serious pest on weet corn, tomato, cotton, and several other row crops grown commercially in California. Sweet corn, however, is the preferred host and, although the larvae also feed in the tassel in the whorl, the most significant damage results from feeding on kernels in the developing ear.


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