Armyworms are pests that attack cereal crops such as rice and grass pastures. Most armyworms cause damage to crops through defoliation — the premature removal of the grassy parts of plants such as ...

The fall armyworm – the caterpillar of a moth species – can only be sustainably controlled with solutions tailored to ...

If you’ve ever seen the results of the true armyworm at work, you know how the pest got its name. The larvae work like an army marching their way across fields feeding on crops – preferably those in ...

The fall armyworm life cycle can span 30 to 90 days, depending on temperature. It moves through six larval stages, called instars, reaching up to 1 1/2 inches long at maturity. Most damage from fall ...

An enemy may have invaded your beautiful, green lawn, leaving it ugly and brown. A wave of fall armyworms (Spodoptera frugiperda) marches through the South every year from the tropical regions around ...

The United Nations is holding emergency talks in Harare to address the crop-eating "armyworm" caterpillars currently devastating farmland across several African countries. The UN's Food and ...

The devastating armyworm pest has already spread to more than 8,500 hectares of China’s grain production and could soon affect the country’s entire crop, a new US government report said this week. The ...

Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is an invasive agricultural pest, which first hit West Africa in 2016 and quickly spread across the continent. Experts have now found that the pest’s impact on ...

A CSIRO researcher studying an invasive moth species, known as fall armyworm, has said Australia may struggle to eradicate it if it gets a hold on the mainland. Biosecurity Queensland has confirmed ...

Fall armyworm is known to feed on up to 350 plant species, including maize, sorghum and rice The exotic pest was first discovered in Australia in January 2020 in the Torres Strait islands A graduate ...