10 Interesting Facts 
about the 
CORN BORER 
- European Corn borer entered America sometime 
between 1909 and 1913 in shipments of broom © 
corn from Europe. | 

It was first discovered in 1917 working in sweet 
corn in New York State. 

In Canada in 1926, it destroyed some four hun- 
dred thousand acres of corn. 

Canada has since controlled the borer by good 
cleanup practices. 

Each corn borer moth can lay as many as 500 
eggs. These eggs hatch out in about a week's 
time. 

Corn borers shed their skin five times while grow- 
ing, as he gets too big for his clothes. 

Corn borers when growing do not like hot, dry 
weather and many die under drought condi- 
tions. 

The northern corn belt has one brood of borer a 
year while the central corn belt has two or 
more a year. 

Corn borers live over the winter as the worm in 
the cornstalks or stubble. 

Corn borers plowed under, usually come to the 
surface, where he will die if he does not have 
something in which to harbor. Clean plowing 
is one of the best control measures when the 
surface is left free of all refuse. , 
