Something Resistant This Way Comes: An Insect Mystery

— Written By Carol Hicks
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NC State entomology researcher, Dominic Reisig, has found that a feared crop pest found in North Carolina is becoming resistant to a common method used to protect crops.

In fall 2013, Dominic Reisig got a phone call from a farmer in rural Hyde County, N.C. The farmer was growing corn, and it was literally falling apart in the field. What was going on?

Reisig is an entomologist at North Carolina State University; a sort of science detective who specializes in insects that pose a threat to crops. And the farmer had presented him with a mystery.

When Reisig arrived, he quickly determined that the culprits were fall armyworms (Spodoptera frugiperda), a pest species that costs farmers in the southeastern United States tens of millions of dollars each year.

What made this case so perplexing was that the farmer had planted a variety of genetically engineered corn that produces a Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) protein that should be fatal to armyworms. But it wasn’t.

Read more of this article by Matt Shipman.

Written By

Carol Hicks, N.C. Cooperative ExtensionCarol HicksFormer Extension Coordinator Email Carol Center for Integrated Pest Management
NC State Extension, NC State University
Updated on Nov 18, 2014
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