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Updates from the Armyworm Network
08
Dec

Latest Armyworm Forecast from ETOP (November 2018)

Synopsis

Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) (FAW): FAW continued appearing in rain-fed and irrigated crops in a few countries in Africa, India and elsewhere during November

African Armyworm (AAW) (Spodoptera exempta): AAW outbreak was reported in Mangochi area in Machinga Agricultural Development Division in Malawi and control operations were carried out with assistance from the Government.

Current situation

Fall armyworm (FAW)

FAW continued its presence in some countries in Africa where it has reported causing damage to rain-fed and irrigated crops. In eastern Africa, infestations that were detected in rain-fed/irrigated fields in Rwanda and Kenya during a field visit by the USAID/OFDA technical advisor in October are expected to have continued in some locations where crops were at early stages during the field visit, but must have diminished in areas were crops were harvested. The pest has been reported in parts of Ethiopia, Uganda, South Sudan, Yemen, India and Sri Lanka and may have arrived in other neighbouring countries, but details were not available at the time this Bulletin was compiled. No FAW were reported in the southern Africa region and no reports were received from the Sahel, Tropical western Africa and elsewhere during this month.

African Armyworm (AAW)

AAW outbreak was reported in Mangochi area in Machinga Agricultural Development Division in Malawi and control was carried out with MoA material and technical assistance to affected farmers (IRLCOCSA).

Forecasts (for the next 6 weeks)

Fall armyworm (FAW)

FAW will continue being a problem in irrigated and rain-fed maize and other crops across several regions in Africa and Asia as the cropping seasons kick in.

African Armyworm (AAW)

AAW outbreaks will likely continue at the foot hills of the seasonal rainfall that favors the pest outbreak.

Acknowledgements

This forecast is published by Lancaster University’s Armyworm Network: http://www.armyworm.org/. It is an extract from the Emergency Transboundary Outbreak Pest (ETOP) situation report compiled by USAID/OFDA/PSPM. They monitor ETOPs regularly in close collaboration with their network of national PPDs/DPVs, regional and international pest monitoring and/or control entities, including FAO, CLCPRO, CRC, DLCO-EA, and IRLCO-CSA, as well as Agency partners, and NGOs and provides timely analytical bulletins and reports to stakeholders across the globe. For dated, archived ETOP SITREPs, please, go to: https://www.usaid.gov/what-wedo/working-crises-andconflict/responding-times-crisis/how-wedo-it/humanitarian-sectors/agricultureand-food-security/pest-and-pesticidemonitoring/archive

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