Tanzania has trained farmers in fighting armyworms since 2007, and responded to forecasts of the late 2009 infestation by sending out hundreds of liters of pesticides to rural farmers.
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STAR radio in Liberia reported in January 2009 that Zota District in Bong County had been invaded by African armyworms, which had consumed vegetation and polluted creeks and running water.
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Armyworms have devoured fields across the Northeast and the Midwest this spring and summer in the biggest infestation in decades, and the second wave of the invasion is about to begin.
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The observation that African armyworm outbreaks can suddenly occur in areas that were free of the pests for several months has led to the hypothesis that the moths migrate hundreds of kilometres.
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The second agreement, with Northrup King, focuses on making corn ( maize ) resistant to the fall armyworm and the southwestern corn borer by using a gene from a killer bacteria.
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Some pests, such as the alfalfa weevil, aphids, armyworms, and the potato leafhopper, can reduce alfalfa yields dramatically, particularly with the second cutting when weather is warmest.
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Beet armyworms are hard to kill, because they have a skin that is difficult to penetrate, said Ray Frisbie, chairman of the Texas A & M University entomology department.
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An invasion of armyworms is turning lawns throughout the Northeast a sickly brown and baffling experts, who can only guess that the source of the infestation was the winds of Tropical Storm Allison.
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Possibly because their saliva is better at breaking down RNA, the cotton bollworm, the beet armyworm and the Asiatic rice borer have so far not been proven susceptible to RNAi by feeding.
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Robert Leiby, director of the Lehigh County Penn State extension office in central Pennsylvania, says he started hearing about armyworms in the area the last week of June and the reports have gotten worse.
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