The thing is they dont look like SVB's to me....I've spent the better part of the last 2 days out there looking and have not seen any of those evil looking moths....and when I cut open the stalk, what I see does NOT look like a grub, it looks more like a translucent termite or ant-type larvae...1/4 of an inch long..and any bad spots are brown mushy areas , with a tan/brown mushy looking excrement near them...i also have tons of ants in the garden, and all around the corn stalks...plus I never heard of SVB's attacking corn either...and these are definitely them same critters, as the autopsy proved.. Does anyone have any $%^&^$##-ing idea what the hell is going on?

I've never had bugs bothers my peppers before. Any idea what it could be? I've fought vine borers in my Zukes & Summer Squash but never peppers, Some cultivated crops subject to infestation include corn, cotton, potato, tomato, alfalfa, rye, barley, pepper, spinach, beet, and sugarbeet.

Scale looks like barnacles on plants. Scale management

What killed the oak? Do you know? It matters because it can have an effect on how your replacement plantings fare. The main thing about plantings around filtered swimming pools is that nothing be chosen that generates small parts liable to be sucked into filter intakes.