Polka Dot Corn Thread

Spotted corn thread worms damage and affect farmers in multiple dimensions. The main effects can be summarized in three areas:

1.Severe decline in productivity (Yield Loss)

Yield loss: Due to destruction at all ages of corn, from leaf-eating, stem-piercing, to direct destruction of pods and seeds, if there is a severe and uncontrolled outbreak, it can damage from 20% to 100%.

Yield quality is depressed: Corn pods bitten by seed-eating boreworms are cleft, black, and rotten, causing them to sell for no price, or are denied admission from a pangpu factory and oily / corn yard.

2. Increased production costs (Production Costs)

Cost of chemicals and pesticides: Farmers need to bear the huge increase in the cost of buying pesticides, and because this worm is relatively easily resistant, it requires changing drug pools or using higher-priced drugs.

Labor costs rise: More frequent labor and time is required to walk through plots, including wages for spraying chemicals or chemical / biotic drop walks at the top of corn one by one.

Redundant Cost from Repair Planting: In the event that worms destroy from young corn (first 1-3 weeks) until the peaks are torn and the trees die, farmers have to spend money buying new seeds and wages to make repaired plantings.

3. Health & Environmental Impact

Residual chemical risk: Severe outbreaks cause some farmers to increase the frequency and concentration of spraying, resulting in a higher risk of chemical accumulation in the body and affecting long-term health.

Ecosystems in fading plots: Using large quantities of chemicals may go to destroy useful natural enemy insects (such as destroyer pigs, killer pigs, or clamp-tailed insects), making it more difficult for ecosystems to lose balance and control future outbreaks.