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N.W. Illinois | Very interesting. Thank you for sharing the information and your photos about hops and kiwis.
Years ago we would have stand loss of young corn plants around the outside of our corn fields. Some times the corn stand was completely devastated. Granular insecticides were of no help, even Counter, which is pretty much toxic to everything. We could not figure out what was killing the corn. The outside of our fields were a mess with foxtail from the stand reduction. I remember mowing off foxtail on what should have been several rows of corn in places. Finally a local agronomist figured out what was causing this. Hop vine borer, when they were larvae, were tunneling under the ground to the corn and were chewing up the corn plants. The borer became established here decades ago when the farmers were growing hops. We had no idea that many hops were growing in our area at one time. I still see a occasional hop growing wild around the outside of our fields. | |
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