You can implement your strategy at night or during the daytime. If there’s a multitude of them, it’s time to develop a defense strategy because the eggs become caterpillars in about seven days. One way to be prepared is to leave an outside light on during the warm nights and check every couple of hours to see how many moths are fluttering around it. Be prepared for the invasionīecause they only work at night and bury themselves under the grass during the day, most often the damage is done before you realise they’re there. This means there can up to three generations of army worm infestations during summer and early autumn. And there’ll be more than just one moth building a nursery in the soil of your lawn.Īfter about a week, the larvae ( caterpillars) emerge with the sole objective being to eat as much green grass as is possible within the next 20 to 35 days before they move onto their pupae stage, then emerge as moths about two weeks later for the next life cycle to begin. That’s about 1000 eggs, from just one moth. They’re not really worms but are the caterpillars of the moth Spodoptera Mauritia, a prolific breeder than can produce 200 to 300 eggs in a single laying, then do the same thing the following night, and again the night after that. This 14-minute video is available in Amharic, English, French, Kiembu, Kiswahili, Portugese, Spanush, and Tamil.Summer is boom time for army worms, considered one of the major international agricultural pests on crops and pastures. It is important to do scouting because without it, you will not have a harvest at the end of the day. Visit your field twice a week for the first six weeks and kill any egg masses and young armyworms by hand. Spraying pesticides is expensive and usually cannot control this pest. The video is 15 minutes long and available in Amharic, English, French, Kiembu, Kiswahili, Portugese, Spanish, and Tamil.
This video explains why, and as well as some natural solutions to deal with Fall armyworms. Farmers usually think spraying pesticides is the solution to this problem, however it can actually make the situation worse. These videos from Access Agriculture provide some important information.įall armyworms damage plants, especially maize. Farmers need information on how to identify this caterpillar, how to monitor their fields for damage, and how to control this pest. Since then it has spread across the continent. The Fall armyworm is a caterpillar that was first introduced to West Africa two years ago.
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