LESSER CORNSTALK BORER, Elasmopalpus lignosellus (Zeller)
Description	Picture	Damage
moths are brownish gray with less than 1-inch wing expanse female forewings are darker than those of the male caterpillars are slender, about 3/4 inch long light green with faint stripes and more prominent, transverse brown bands	Photo credit: Extension Entomology, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University	larvae bore into corn and bean stems at ground level or below the soil tunnel upwards causing plant death injury is usually more severe in fields that had Johnsongrass or sorghum previously corn after fallow fields is seldom damaged soils moist enough to germinate seed are optimum for adult emergence