Southeast Missouri, which was hit by tough spring flooding this year, now faces a trio of onerous insects picking on crops, timber and foliage. The Japanese beetle, the emerald ash borer and the gypsy ...

Corn leafhoppers are small insects that can damage corn crops. The bugs appeared farther north this year in Missouri and Oklahoma. A small insect carrying pathogens that can lead to corn stunt was ...

Two weeks ago, Chaffee, Mo., farmer Charles Hinkebein noticed unwelcome guests in his 800-acre cornfield. A pesky group of armyworms had helped themselves to foliage of the corn. So Hinkebein and his ...

COLUMBIA — Missouri residents will see more insects this Spring and Summer because temperatures did not hit below freezing enough throughout the winter. This December in Missouri "the state report[ed] ...

COLUMBIA – Ash trees in Missouri might be in danger this winter. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, tree pests called Emerald Ash Borers are spreading around the state. Currently, ...

Small insects that damage corn crops are being reported in Oklahoma and Missouri fields for the first time this year. Corn leafhoppers are small, tan torpedo-shaped bugs about one-eighth of an inch ...