Some common causes of brown patches on your lawn include drought stress, dog urine, disease, or burning from too much sun or fertilizers. Armyworm caterpillars are a less common culprit.

In lawns, armyworms chew grass blades down to the crown, giving it a scalped appearance. If damage is extensive, the grass will need reseeding and other intervention. Crops like corn, rice ...

MANILA, Philippines — The state-run Regional Crop Protection Center (RCPC) has been ordered to assist farmers in Pangasinan whose onion farms were destroyed by armyworms. Arnel de Mesa ...

It usually strikes us late but this year, it started early. I’ve never seen so many fall armyworms. Anywhere you go there, everybody’s got fall armyworms.” “In soybeans, yield losses from ...

The worms which include African armyworms and Fall armyworms have attacked food crops such as maize, sorghum and Napier grass. A spot check in Rangwe and Rachuonyo South Sub counties revealed that ...

The insects are said to have invaded the farms since last week. [Peter Ochieng, Standard] The infestation of fall armyworms was first reported in Kenya in March 2017, the Western parts being among ...

Virgie Abaoag, an onion grower, recalled how her former employer suffered three consecutive losses due to armyworms and has now switched to planting corn. “Imbes na sibuyas na naman—wala na, sumuko na ...