Symptoms of Damage of the fall armyworm on Maize Eggs are small, greenish-white, globular, and laid in clusters of 25 or more on the leaves of grasses. The head is brown with dark honeycombed markings. The full-grown 1.5 -2 inch armyworm has a greenish brown body with a thin stripe down the center and two orange stripes along each side. If both are not available then it will attack other crops belonging to Poaceae, the family of grasses, such as sugarcane, rice, wheat, ragi, fodder grasses etc.Ĭool, wet, spring weather usually favours armyworm development. Later Fall armyworm infestation was reported in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Bihar, West Bengal, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and Kerala.įall army worm is a destructive pest of Maize and Sorghum. The incidence of this pest was first observed in India since May 2018. Fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperdais a most invasive pest native to America, it has invaded India and now causing huge economic damage in maize.
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