Global warming has brought Argentina’s corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter temperatures and is threatening harvests of the ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine scientific institute has cracked the genome of the leafhopper, the insect which carries the bacteria responsible for wiping out vast swathes of the South American ...

CORDOBA PROVINCE, Argentina (Reuters) - Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter ...

NCSU Extension Entomologist advises farmers to scout regularly for the new leaf hopper that has been damaging crops.

The insect was found in one corn field in Waseca County, where adults of the corn leafhopper were captured on yellow sticky traps placed on corn plants at the R5-R6 stage. The insect was found in one ...

The corn leafhopper, an invasive insect native to Mexico that has spread extensively and caused economic losses across the Americas, was identified in Minnesota for the first time this fall, according ...

Corn leafhopper insects carry pathogens that cause corn stunt disease, which can significantly impact corn development and yields depending on the timing. In the battle against crop diseases, the game ...

To honor his research of leafhoppers for the past 25 years, a new species of leafhopper insects were named after University Systematic Entomologist Chris Dietrich. The new species of leafhoppers, ...

Q: Help! There are some little brownish insects appearing on the outside of my windows, on the ceiling of my porch and even inside my kitchen. They seem to be attracted to light. They fly, but they ...

Xylem-feeding leafhoppers have evolved several behavioral and physiological adaptations to utilize xylem fluid of variable composition, including polyphagy and high assimilation efficiency. They also ...

STORY: Global warming has brought Argentina’s corn farmers a dangerous new enemy, leafhoppers. A rare plague of the tiny yellow insects has slashed millions of tons from Argentina’s harvest ...