Euxesta stigmatias
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Description: Provides photographs and a description of this species, a destructive pest of corn ears, its distribution, life cycle, host plants, damage and management.
cornsilk fly Euxesta stigmatias common name: cornsilk fly (suggested common name) 'Cornsilk flies' are attractive, medium to dark metallic green to black colored flies with distinctive wing patterns and wing flapping behavior. They are commonly found throughout Florida’s agricultural communities. Their normally saprophytic life style belies their destructive nature when it comes to their preference for sweet corn ears. Entire fields may have to be passed up for harvest if they go untreated for these destructive pests, or if individual treatments were missed due to weather, time or other constraints. Ears produced for seed and silage corn are also vulnerable to attack, but damage to these field corns often goes unnoticed due to less frequent scouting. Four species of 'cornsilk flies' are known to attack corn in Florida:
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| Page title: | cornsilk fly Euxesta stigmatias |
| Keywords: | cornsilk fly Euxesta stigmatias Diptera Otitidae Gregg Nuessly John Capinera |
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| IP-address: | 128.227.242.110 |
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| NS | Name Servers: NS.NAME.UFL.EDU 128.227.30.254 RNS.NAME.UFL.EDU 8.6.245.30 |
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| Date | activated: 25-Mar-1986 last updated: 03-Feb-2014 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |