Sentences with word «armyworm»

For years, chemical ecologist Dawn Luthe and her students wondered why fall armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera frugiperda) let piles of feces, known as frass, accumulate on corn, trapped in the plant's cuplike whorls where the leaves join the stalk.

In a paper published today (July 10) in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers have shown that a tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plant's protections can encourage beet armyworm caterpillars (Spodoptera exigua) to cannibalize other caterpillars.

For the experiment, researchers used bell pepper and soybean plants, beet armyworm caterpillars, and honeybees.

The former deputy minister was heavily criticised for making what many considered ethnocentric comments with regards to people from the north in the heat of the destructive fall armyworms invasion.

They have found DNA derived from wasps in silkworms, two kinds of armyworm moths and the monarch butterfly.

Strikingly the domestication of genes harboured by bracoviruses is not limited to» viral» genes, some of them originated from the wasp: in armyworm species, a group of genes transferred was shown to be clearly more closely related to genes from hymenoptera, including the honey bee, rather than lepidoptera.

In new experiments, Hobson's team captured true armyworm moths in Ontario throughout the year and analyzed the hydrogen retained within the moths» wings.

Keith Hobson of Western University in London, Canada, and colleagues have been studying the insect pest known as the true armyworm moth (Mythimna unipuncta).

Dr. Afriyie Akoto said the fund could be used to mitigate the plight of farmers in distressed times, like recently where some farmers have been calling for the government's financial support after their farms were ravaged by armyworms.

The Deputy Minister came under fire for suggesting in an interview on Star FM that the northern farmers» damage assessment from armyworms for possible compensation could not be trusted and that calls for support were simply a ploy to fleece the government.

In North and South America, the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda is an important maize pest causing considerable damage.

He said in 2016, the Fall Armyworm invaded maize crops in Zambia and by January 3, 2017 about 90,000 hectares were affected, according to reports released by the Zambian government's Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit.

William Quaitoo reacting to complaints from farmers in the area on how their farms have been destroyed by the fall armyworm said, the complaints are «just a way of taking money from the government; that's what they do all the time because they're difficult people.

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Like his colleague Daniel Giddings Vassão, Felipe Wouters is from Brazil, where fall armyworm caused major losses of the maize yield before Bt maize was introduced.

According to a Reuters report this summer Brazilian farmers are complaining that Bt is not protecting the plants against the fall armyworm any longer.

I'm a bit puzzled by this work, because I have long assumed that many (far from all) herbivorous caterpillars and some nominally omnivorous beetle larvae routinely are cannibalistic — more specifically, some of them, including some Pyralidae as well as some of the Noctuoidea, such as armyworm, Heliothus and several closely related, seem to feed on part of the flowering heads of the food plants, but pounce on any rivals, related or not, and eat them.

Then the authors put armyworm caterpillars onto the plants.

Oxitec's Simon Warner: Engineered male fall armyworms contain a gene that prevents female offspring from reaching adulthood, reducing wild pest...

Learn what he and his students think of BTI's armyworm kit, one of the Institute's many educational resources.

For its latest work, Tumlinson's team knew that corn plants release a potent wasp attractant — a blend of terpenoids and indole — when under attack from the beet armyworm caterpillar.

Contrary to claims made by the Agric Minister, Dr. Akoto Owusu Afriyie that government has eliminated fall armyworms which have plagued farmers since 2017, the Director of the Directorate of Crop Services at the Ministry for Food and Agriculture, Emmanuel Asante Krobea has conceded that the pests can not be exterminated in the long haul.

If anybody says that his farm was destroyed by armyworm, the person would have to come and prove it.

Mr. Quaitoo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, had come under fire for saying, in an interview on Accra - based Star FM, that northern farmers could not be trusted in their assessment of damage from armyworms.

The fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda is one of the most important maize pests in North and South America.

In armyworms, the transferred genes might protect them against another kind of virus.

Inferring origins of migrating insects using isoscapes: a case study using the true armyworm, Mythimna unipuncta, in North America.

Then there are the delicate interactions between warblers and armyworm caterpillars, including what happens when the system breaks down through habitat destruction from logging and the overuse of insecticides.

A Virginia Tech research collaboration produces advanced modeling about the potential spread of fall armyworm in Egypt.

Description: Fruitworms include the fall armyworm, beet armyworm, and tomato fruitworm (also called the corn earworm).

Fall and beet armyworms, yellow - striped armyworms, and variegated cutworms may feed on pods.

The beet armyworm will also feed on the foliage.

Mr. Quaitoo reacting to complaints from farmers in the area on how their farms have been destroyed by the fall armyworm and subsequent appeal for some form of compensation said, the complaints are «just a way of taking money from the government; that's what they do all the time...».

The Ejisu - Juaben district chief cocoa farmer, Nana Kofi Mpiani, feared Ghana may not be able to achieve its target of producing 1 million tonnes of cocoa if the invasion of the armyworms on cocoa farms is not controlled.

Armyworms have invaded several cocoa farms in the Ejisu - Juaben municipality in the Ashanti region.

«I've currently lost investment worth thousands of Ghana cedis last year when the armyworms infested my farm.

He was of the view that every Ghanaian must accept that armyworms are always going to be with us therefore it's about time we accept that and work around it»

He said officials of NADMO were ready to collaborate with MOFA, the Regional Coordinating Council and other stakeholders in agriculture to combat the fall armyworm, which were threatening livelihoods of farmers.

The Deputy Minister has come under intense criticisms for days after passing uncomplimentary comment about people from the Northern region in the wake of the armyworms invasion.

It was supported by Asunafo South MP Eric Opoku, who urged the new deputy minister to do his best to support the sector minister in not only fighting the fall armyworms but also settling protesting college of agriculture students.

A 1995 outbreak of two migratory moth species — beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua) and cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni)-- devastated cotton crops in Texas» Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Caterpillars of the fall armyworm and two other Spodoptera species deploy a gut enzyme that catalyzes the attachment of a sugar to the toxic free DIMBOA.

The fall armyworm has rapidly spread across the continent and is wreaking destruction on staple crops

The name «armyworm» refers to the sudden, massive occurrence of the pest insects that attack crop fields like an entire army once their previous food supply is exhausted.