Fall armyworms cannot survive winters in most of the Southeast, says Waltz. Instead, the moths hitch a ride every year on storms coming up from balmy tropical regions, including Central and South ...

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

Fall armyworm typically can be found in the region starting in ... leaving a large amount of tissue unprotected for moths to lay eggs on. By day 10, silks generally stop growing. Thus, spray programs ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Sep., 1986), pp. 502-515 (14 pages) Biological control of the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith), in areas of overwintering and throughout its ...

The Fall Armyworm, the caterpillar stage of a moth, is a major pest in North and South America which crossed the Atlantic to West Africa in 2016 and rapidly spread across the continent. This project, ...

The African armyworm's counterpart, the Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is a moth native to the Americas that can cause significant damage to various crops, particularly maize, by feeding on ...

“I’ve been looking at crops and doing this bug thing for well over 40 years, and I can tell you right now that this fall, armyworm outbreak is the worst I’ve seen in my career,” says Gus ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3495753 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495753 The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith), includes morphologically ...

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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.

Famers have been warned to prepare for a second strike of African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta) during this or next week ...