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Abstract
Maize (ZiUI mays L.) is a bask food for the majority of the
Egyptian farmers and it i considered OuE: of the most imp rtant
cereal crop in Egypt. Green plants are used as fodder for large
animals find rabbits, While, ground seeds 111<.\ added <’I.’ uiain
component of dry food It - also 11,ed for human food ail r being
mixed with wheat flour for bread production. It plays, also an
importauc role in everal industries important 10 Eg),1~t’s econotuy
such as C·On!oil, fructose ugar lind larch production.
Through ut [be ,lICC • ive gr wth rages of om plant,
startinz from tile seedlin stage up 10 ear’ production and maturity of
eeds, plant act as favourable _ite for feeding by numerous insect
specie. Plants act al 0 a excellent harbour for many predaceous and
parasitic insect species (Twafllurt ot, 19’’J.f).
The, two corn bOJeJ”S, SaS(1mll’! CluJ!C/) Led. and OsrrillhJ=
Pymusfa) rmbij(/j; (Hulm.) lJJ<lY be, f.1idy considered 11’ the most
ertous pests 10 com pl nt in Egypt. 1111} former per attacks pl, I)’
during the seedling taae, boring through the plant stem lind causing
lo _ of all the infested plant _1I11.d rei~U)-tatiou occurs to plant after
about 45 days of sowing, cau iu great reduction ill the final yield,
Wbile 0 11IIb”’aliS - res plants ill the later stage, where larvae bore
in the rtems and eMS call ing, also. great lo - in the final yield. Ibul-
~fas1”et at, (1968) reported that the highest lure nation of com pI, lit ,
in Egypt, by S. erotica occur to plants sown in April followed by
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