The insect said to threaten the food security of 600 million people globally may have met its match in the form of several ...

A new study published in the journal CABI Reviews highlights the critical role that integrated pest management (IPM) plays in ...

A new study published in the journal CABI Reviews highlights the critical role that integrated pest management (IPM) plays in combating the threat fall armyworm poses to Asian rice security.

A CABI-led study has revealed that participation in the Zambia Farmer Input Subsidy Program (FISP)—particularly the flexible e-voucher system—encourages synthetic pesticide use at the expense ...

A new study published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment shows that pests such as the fall armyworm (Spodoptera ...

Beginning in mid-July, fall armyworm often infests whorls, tassels, and ears. Sometimes this feeding is damaging enough pre-silking to require an insecticide application. Unfortunately, the best ...

Chemical pesticides are not required," said Tiwari. The cultured wasps or hornets deposit eggs where the armyworms lay eggs. "The eggs of hornets will suck the rich nutrients out of armyworm eggs ...

Thirty-one cases of African armyworm have been reported in the Letsemeng Local Municipality over the past two days.

Kadirire is hoping rains, which started January, continue in March so she can at least harvest some other crops, like groundnuts, which armyworm ignore ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Dec., 1994), pp. 440-453 (14 pages) The beet armyworm, Spodoptera exigua (Hubner), has recently become a persistent and explosive pest of cotton in the ...

In January, the government sent alerts via social media and radios about the armyworm outbreak, providing information on control measures, including which pesticides to use. But some farmers ...