Greener Fields: Western Corn Rootworm (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Greener Fields: Western Corn Rootworm

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Crop-rotation resistant western corn rootworm beetles lay their eggs in soybean fields. The eggs overwinter and hatch out in the spring after corn is planted in the same fields.

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Photo by Joseph Spencer, INHS

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