While the term armyworm is used to describe a few different kinds of destructive caterpillars, one of the most well known in ...

Strain identification by the MspI mtDNA profile correlated exactly with nuclear DNA markers. Since no HaeIII sites are present in fall armyworm mtDNA, a double-digest of total fall armyworm DNA using ...

The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) is a significant economic pest in the western hemisphere, causing substantial losses in corn, sorghum, forage, and turf grasses. Although fall ...

By Milliam MurigiAs climate change intensifies, rising temperatures and increasingly unpredictable weather patterns create ...

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, ...

Populations of fall armyworm are two to three weeks more advanced than they have been in previous seasons, bringing calls for maize and sweetcorn ...

So, it makes it much more vulnerable to the choices of the fall armyworm.” Young has been in Extension for 29 years, and he says the armyworms ravaging Ohio fields is a first. “We weren’t ...