Overcoming Soybean Defenses (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Overcoming Soybean Defenses

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Some western corn rootworms, like this gravid (egg-carrying) female, survive on soybean leaves long enough to lay their eggs in soybean fields. When their eggs hatch, the larvae feed on corn roots when the same fields are planted in corn the following year.

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Joseph Spencer, INHS

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