[HTML][HTML] Fall armyworm invasion in Sub-Saharan Africa and impacts on community sustainability in the wake of Coronavirus Disease 2019: reviewing the evidence

MK Kansiime, I Rwomushana, I Mugambi - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Fall armyworm remains an important pest in Africa's farming systems.•Yield
losses in maize up to 58% due to fall armyworm reported.•Annual economic losses have …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated management of Spodoptera frugiperda 6 years post detection in Africa: a review

GT Tepa-Yotto, P Chinwada, I Rwomushana… - Current Opinion in Insect …, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•There is scope for fall armyworm (FAW) biocontrol through augmentation and
conservation.•“Push-pull” has been shown to provide good levels of FAW control in East …

[HTML][HTML] Sublethal Effects of Emamectin Benzoate on Fall Armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

ZK Liu, XL Li, XF Tan, MF Yang, A Idrees, JF Liu… - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a highly invasive
polyphagous pest that causes great economic losses to agricultural production. Emamectin …

Are digital services the right solution for empowering smallholder farmers? A perspective enlightened by COVID-19 experiences to inform smart IPM

H Sekabira, GT Tepa-Yotto… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic, surprised many through its impact on the food systems, resulting
in collapses in the food production value chains and in the integrated pest disease …

Use of time series normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to monitor fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) damage on maize production systems in Africa

M Adan, HEZ Tonnang, K Greve… - Geocarto …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Fall armyworm (FAW) Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith), damage was monitored at a
regional scale using time series data in Western and Southern African countries. The study …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging computational intelligence to identify and map suitable sites for scaling up augmentative biological control of cereal crop pests

KM Agboka, HEZ Tonnang, EM Abdel-Rahman… - Biological Control, 2024 - Elsevier
Fall armyworm (FAW) Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith) is a major pest affecting cereal
production in Africa. Biological control (BC) technologies are being promoted as a …

Companion crops alter olfactory responses of the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) and its larval endoparasitoid (Cotesia icipe)

E Peter, A Tamiru, S Sevgan, T Dubois… - Chemical and Biological …, 2023 - Springer
Background The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, is a devastating invasive pest
and a threat to food security in Africa, with yield losses of 20–50%. Recent studies …

Computational biogeographic distribution of the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda JE Smith) moth in eastern Africa

EM Abdel-Rahman, E Kimathi, BT Mudereri… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda JE Smith, has caused massive maize
losses since its attack on the African continent in 2016, particularly in east Africa. In this …

[HTML][HTML] A generalized risk assessment index for forecasting insect population under the effect of temperature

FT Ndjomatchoua, RAY Guimapi, L Rossini… - Journal of Thermal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Life history traits have been studied under various environmental factors, but the ability to
combine them into a simple function to assess pest response to climate is still lacking …

[HTML][HTML] Fall armyworm habitat analysis in Africa with multi-source earth observation data

T Qi, Y Dong, XL Li, MX Zhao, W Huang - Computers and Electronics in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda, FAW) is a significant migratory agricultural pest
under the global warning of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations …