From Bob Randell, University of Saskatchewan
Canada
In your article “Engineered maize sticks in Europe’s throat” (This Week, 6
July, p 8), you describe the European corn borer as “a beetle larva that
destroys 10 per cent of Europe’s maize crop”. The European corn borer is, in
fact, the larva of a moth or lepidopteran, Ostrina (Pyrausta) nubilalis
.
