A farmer inspects a plant to reveal an armyworm he found feeding on his maize crop at a farm on the outskirts of Harare, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization coordinator ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Dewhurst with his microlite: on one occasion, working on an armyworm project, he became distracted by a herd of wildebeest ...

Southern Africa is facing an invasion by an army — but not the sort of force you can defeat with ammunition. This foreign invader is an agricultural pest that is threatening the breadbasket of the ...

Locusts breeding in central Zambia may pose a bigger threat to farmers in southern Africa than the fall armyworm that’s ravaged crops this year, according to an organization that combats the pests.

African Armyworn invade a maize farm in Ragana Village in Suna West sub-County on April 12, 2022. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard] The Ministry of Agriculture has identified game parks and national reserves ...

An outbreak of armyworm caterpillars present in several southern African countries threatens to strip the entire region of key food supplies, warned the UN food agency Thursday. "It is probably only a ...

Almost all of Africa’s maize crop is at risk from the devastating fall armyworm pest (Spodoptera frugiperda) according to new research published in the journal Frontiers in Insect Science. The ...

Almost all of Africa's maize crop is at risk from the devastating fall armyworm pest (Spodoptera frugiperda) according to new research. Scientists have highlighted how almost the entire African maize ...