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

The fall armyworm (FAW), scientifically known as Spodoptera frugiperda, is a significant agricultural pest that has rapidly spread from its native regions in the Americas to various parts of the ...

E. Smith), in Louisiana and Florida, respectively. Disposable sticky traps baited with pheromone, (Z)-9-dodecen-1-ol acetate, also have been used extensively in surveys for the adult fall armyworm ...

riobravis (Cabanillas, Raulston & Poinar) for controlling prepupae of the fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith). Treatments consisted of 2 nematode species as factor A, 5 diets (the ...

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

The project succeeded in developing a machine learning algorithm that could detect the damage caused by the Fall Armyworm (FAW) to smallholder maize fields using satellite images. The software can ...

GOVERNMENT has declared war on the devastating armyworm, procuring 55, 000 litres of pesticides to halt their invasion on crops.The crop-munching pests have so far caused havoc on more than 300, 000 ...

Farmers in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North Province, have welcomed the temporary break in rainfall, as it allows them to apply much-needed chemicals to combat ...

There may be some good news for farmers impacted by the devastating fall armyworm, as a Sydney-based researcher has found positive results in biological control studies for the pest.