What’s this on my corn?

Something eating or rotting my corn tassels. Only saw it on one plant so far.

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Are the chlorotic streaks just on that one plant also? If yes I’d say virus.

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That one and the one next to it.

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I’d dig them out right away just to be safe.

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I see that on tassels where the corn ear worm has gotten down in there and eaten on that part of the plant about 2 wks earlier. I can’t see it that well but it also might be smut.

The “remnants” or frass look like the same stuff when I get earworms inside the ears.

I’ve never seen them attack the tassels.

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