Checked out my corn this morning and was delighted to see that the first ear of corn on each stalk looks good, but upon closer inspection of the second ear, I saw that most of them were loaded with aphids, complete with eggs and larvae. Can I do anything to help these younger more tender ears? Will it be a matter of ime before those buggers will get me whole crop of corn? Like I mentioned, the older ones look fine but those little ears are just infested. I don't know how deep the bugs go, they appear to be "just inside" the outer husk. I looked in the archives but really didn't see to much to help me with this particular problem. Thanks ahead for you input.

-- a bug eyed claudia c. (cooleys1995@yahoo.com), July 24, 2001

Answers

Get ladybugs!

-- Paul Wheaton (paul@javaranch.com), July 25, 2001.

I wonder if Diotomaceous Earth would work; don't see why it wouldn't. Doesn't cost much to try! dh in nm

-- debra in nm (dhaden@nmtr.unm.edu), July 25, 2001.

DE won't work here cuz aphids are soft bodied.

-- Paul Wheaton (paul@javaranch.com), July 26, 2001.