Warming=CornPests=No Ethanol

A Purdue study suggests warmer temperatures could lead to a boom in corn pest and other pests. Climate change could provide the warmer weather pests prefer, leading to an increase in populations that feed on corn and other crops, according to a new study.

Warmer growing season temperatures and milder winters could allow some of these insects to expand their territory and produce an extra generation of offspring each year, said Noah Diffenbaugh, the Purdue University associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences who led the study. ?EUR??,,????'?????<