 University of Illinois Extension field crops entomologist Nick Sider was recently concerned that northern and western corn rootworm beetles could become a problem for some fields in the eastern Corn Belt and to some extent the Japanese beetle too. However, he says the world has changed for those two silk-clipping insect pests with the passage of moisture from Hurricane Beryl. When we have adequate moisture and it looks now like pretty much the entire state is going to have adequate, if not surplus, moisture,