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