Request for Corn Earworms

Thank you for your interest in the Future Scientists Student Outreach Initiative and our corn earworm classroom project. Please complete the following request form and your worms will be FedExed to your school at no charge. NOTE: Your request must be at least two weeks in advance.

Order Dates

The lab in College Station is happy to send out free worms again this coming year but only at certain times to make this more manageable. One three-week period in The Fall and again in The Spring semester.

Please only order worms to arrive at your school during the two time periods listed below.

Please give as much notice as possible to the lab:

FALL 2007: September 17 to October 5 (inclusive)
SPRING 2008: March 3 to March 21 (inclusive)

For More information and lessons available on-line:

http://futurescientists.tamu.edu

click on "Lesson Index"
click on "Corn Earworm"

To view presentations of student experiments, view or download these powerpoint presentations:

Got Questions? Ask a scientist!

cornearworm@sparc.tamu.edu

Project Director:

Dr. Craig Wilson
College of Science, Texas A&M University
517 Blocker Building
3257 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3257
cwilson@science.tamu.edu
979.458.4451

Funding Agency:

USDA/Agricultural Research Service/Southern Plains Area (USDA/ARS/SPA)