Maize accounts for 41% of world cereal production. It is one of the three most widely produced crops in the world, after wheat and rice. This study aimed to improve maize production through cultural control. Maize was grown in association with Chromolaena odorata. Each elementary plot contained eight pitfall traps and eight colour traps, arranged according to the FAO method. Eight maize plants were selected at random from each elementary plot for manual insect trapping. The insects were collected before sunrise every three days. As for yield loss, 10 mature ears of maize were collected at random from each elementary plot. A total of 1610 insects were identified, including two pest species, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera) and Zonocerus variegatus (Orthoptera). This population was made up of 7 orders (Coleoptera; Diptera; Lepidoptera; Orthoptera; Hemiptera, Hymenoptera and Dictyoptera), belonging to 50 families and 74 species. The plot with C. odorata recorded 834 individuals, i.e., 51.80% of the population. The plot without C. odorata (Control) recorded 776 individuals, representing 48.20% of the total insect population. The most abundant insect order was Coleoptera (23.40% in the control, 25.53% in the plots with C. odorata). Yield losses were not significantly different, at 20.82% for the plot with C. odorata and 30.57% for the control. The study concluded that combination of maize and Chromolaena odorata did not affect insect activit.