Across the Northeast, Midwest, South and Southwest United States, homeowners are watching with horror as their lawns turn from green to brown, sometimes in less than 48 hours, and wondering, “What ...
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 routine observation by a scientist may have led to a significant discovery about plant defense systems. Using a faint smell ...
Rice plants and Venus flytraps share something in common that was not scientifically documented until recently. Using a faint ...
Homeowners, farmers and golf course managers in spotty locations across Pennsylvania have seen their lawns, grain fields and golf course roughs devastated in the past few weeks by hordes of ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The invasive fall armyworm is native to the Americas and was first found in Africa in early 2016. It has since spread to nearly all of sub-Saharan ...
A farmer in Bubi near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, shows damage to his maize crop caused by the fall armyworm. Aaron Ufumeli/ EPA The caterpillars of the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), an invasive moth ...
It’s gone. They ate everything. Nothing is left. Those are words used to describe the destruction caused by fall armyworms recently in Putnam County and throughout the state of Indiana. So, what have ...