Common Stalk Borer - Home and Garden IPM from Cooperative Extension - University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Common Stalk Borer The Common Stalk Borer (Papaipema nebris) [family: Noctuidae], is a type of moth (in the adult stage) which is native to North America. In its larval stage it is called a ‘borer’ because of the way it chews holes into the stalks of plants and bores into–and tunnels