11. The StarLink corn was engineered with a bacterium's gene that's deadly to the corn borer pest. 12. "There's your European corn borer , " he says. 13. Bats also eat farm and garden pests such as stink bugs, Jerusalem crickets, corn borers and leafhoppers. 14. Also, corn borer infestations have been low throughout much of the Midwest for the past two years. 15. Bt-corn, which contains genes from bacteria known as Bacillus thuringiensis, is resistant to the corn borer pest. 16. The so-called Bt corn is designed to produce a natural pesticide that kills the European corn borer . 17. Such toxins could affect other insects in addition to targeted pests such as the European corn borer . 18. The StarLink corn is engineered to produce a protein toxic to a common pest, the corn borer . 19. The corn produces a natural pesticide designed to kill a major corn pest, the European corn borer . 20. Biotech corn, called Bt corn, is designed to produce a natural pesticide that kills the European corn borer .
