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| Hi, I started to plant corn 2 years ago and along with it last two years I had a bad bell pepper infestation with some larva.I only found one pest online that could affect peppers like this: European Corn Borer. Funny thing is - corn itself seems to be healthy. And, the larva doesn't look exactly like in the pictures. It is more withe, then greenish. Damage almost always starts from the blossom end, and you really can't see it on a healthy pepper. Then it moves to the opposite end, using strip inside the bell for a tunnel. If strips doesn't feet the tunnel, it bores into the wall, and moves to the seeds. When they in the pepper wall they small - probably 3-5 mm long, 1 mm wide and white. They grow bigger when reach the seeds and change color to creamy. See pictures. So my question is: Is it really European Corn Borer? If not - what it is? If yes, any way to fight it? And if I stop planting corn - will they go away? |
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