The corn earworm causes the loss of more than 76,000 bushels of corn in the United States annually, and there is mounting evidence that increasingly extreme weather events and temperatures will ...

An outbreak of the African armyworm (Spodoptera exempta) has been reported in Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and Limpopo, according to ...

Of those, flea beetles were once again top concern for canola, the provincial entomologist said during Manitoba Ag Days held ...

MBABANE - A new threat has emerged for Eswatini’s farmers: the African armyworm (Umgundzatjani). The Minister of Agriculture has issued a warning about the invasion of these destructive pests.

However, in order to avoid the potential risks of RNAi products, researchers need to rule out that dsRNA may impose risks on non-target organisms in a sequence-specific manner when designing exogenous ...

Entomologist Dr Jenny Dymock checks a fall army worm trap alongside a maize crop near Kaitāia. Photo / Mike Dinsdale The top-of-New Zealand’s biggest maize contractor says news of a potential ...

The Christchurch-based Federation of Arable Research is warning New Zealand will likely for the first time see four fall army worm generations this season, which will most likely play out in the Far ...

The popular weed killer Roundup tops the lists of successful ACC claims for injuries related to herbicides, pesticides and insecticides. ACC accepted 359 claims for injuries involving Roundup since ...

Populations of fall armyworm are two to three weeks more advanced than they have been in previous seasons, bringing calls for maize and sweetcorn growers to scout their crops as often as possible.

Bio-Gene Technology (ASX: BGT) has been awarded $3 million in grants by the US Department of Defense to develop insecticide products to protect its workforce from threats posed by disease-carrying ...