Corn earworm
symptoms The female lays small quantities of eggs, between one and three, in the hairs of green ears of corn. The larvae feed on the hairs of the young corn [...] corn and on the young kernels at the tip of the cob. During the third instar, the larvae turn cannibalistic, with only one caterpillar surviving, which [...] trace, which makes it necessary to open the crop to detect the pest. Life cycle and appearance of the corn earworm The eggs of corn earworm are a milky-white