The following descriptions correspond to the numbered photographs on the next pages.

5-1. Adult chinch bug on field corn foliage.

5-2. Chinch bug nymph.

5-3. Field corn seedling damaged by chinch bug and showing distortion, yellowing and delayed leaf unfolding.

5-4. Adult corn flea beetle and foliar damage.

5-5. Adult thrips on field corn foliage and resulting damage.

5-6. Mature black cutworm larvae.

5-7. Cutworm damage to seedling field corn.

5-8. Seed corn maggot larvae and associated damage on seedling field corn.

5-9. Adult sugarcane beetle.

5-10. Gouged out feeding damage from an adult sugarcane beetle on seedling field corn.

5-11. Mature white grub larvae.

5-12. Mature wireworm larvae.

5-13. Wireworm feeding damage in seed and newly emerging corn seedlings.

5-14. Immature and mature aphids on field corn foliage.

5-15. Mature corn earworm larvae that has developed on field corn.

5-16. Corn earworm damage to the whorl of field corn.

5-17. Adult European corn borer.

5-18. Mature European corn borer larvae with dorsal integument darker than ventral integument.

5-19. Shot holes produced by corn borer larvae on seedling field corn.

5-20. Adult southwestern corn borer.

5-21. Mature southwestern corn borer larvae within corn stalk.
5-22. Dead heart of field corn produced by corn borer larvae feeding into the growing point of the whorl.

5-23. Lodging of field corn resulting form corn borer feeding damage in the lower portion of the stalks.

5-24. Newly laid southwestern corn borer eggs.

5-25. Southwestern corn borer eggs after two days of development.

5-26. Mature fall armyworm larvae feeding on kernels of corn.