Farmers in Manchester and St Elizabeth are being advised by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries to take precaution against the beet armyworm, following a rise in the pest ...

THE island-wide infestation of crops by the beet armyworm has resulted in a $150-million loss of revenue to farmers. This pest has been most pervasive in the parish of St Elizabeth. In response to ...

Consultants with Boise-based Amalgamated Sugar Co. report pockets of Leafminers and Armyworms are starting to appear in Treasure Valley sugar beet fields. A May 31 notice from the Pacific Northwest ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 79, No. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp. 296-302 (7 pages) The braconid parasitoid Cotesia marginiventris (Cresson) has long been known to be a larval parasitoid of numerous ...

Alias: Beet Armyworm. These are a pest in the moth family. Adults lay eggs in the spring in a nest of finely woven hairs. Caterpillars hatch 5-8 days after. The caterpillar is distinguished from other ...

Deleting a gene linked to the production of sex pheromones in the beet armyworm (Spodoptera exigua) causes females to lose their attractiveness to males, offering a new potential route to control the ...

Beet armyworm caterpillars turned to eating each other when the leaves they were placed on were made to taste foul. Brian Connolly / UW-Madison When left to choose between eating foul-tasting leaves ...

The microsporidium Nosema sp. SE is a pathogen that infects the beet armyworm Spodoptera exigua. The complete sequence of its 4,302-base pair (bp) ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) gene region was ...

Physically damaged or chewed plants produce a volatile chemical that may serve as a primer to prepare nearby plants to defend themselves against insect attack, according to a team of researchers.