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Pleased to share a link to A research paper on the distribution of covert microbial natural enemies of fall armyworm publish in the Journal of Animal Ecology, British Ecological Society. These work was done partly in Africa (Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Sudan abd and Zambia) and Uk. By several Authors, led by Amy J. Withers…. …
Post Date: 2022-06-28 10:13:53
Author: Samuel Mensah
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Several FAW workshops and discussions have been done in the past months to help strengthen FAW research, control and collaboration world wide. Several compatible and less harmful approach have been taken in IPM to manage FAW in a more sustainable way. One of these IPM approach is biological control. Biological control works are usually impeded …
Post Date: 2021-04-01 16:25:18
Author: Samuel Mensah
Community Questions
An Ethiopian, PhD student in Entomology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa focusing on host plant odours and sex pheromone lures responsible for the fall armyworm moth attraction want to apply for a short-term stay research grant to do some of my research activities. The grant called AGNES Intra-Africa Mobility grant, covers travel and …
Post Date: 2021-03-16 16:37:20
Author: Anne Njoroge
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Trap cropping is a promising, environmentally sound approach to manage pests in agricultural and forest systems through exploiting insect preferences for certain host plants. In a wide range of cropping systems, trap cropping greatly reduces damage, disease and insecticide use on the main crops, and thus increases the yield of the main crop. In a …
Post Date: 2021-02-24 23:40:53
Author: Sundar Tiwari
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Registration and presentations: Registration for workshop participation is free and ends before March 14, 2021. PLEASE NOTE : Registration for research presentation ends Monday 22 February 2021. If you are interested to present your research on biological control of FAW in Africa, please submit your paper on-line (a title and a short abstract, max 100 …
Post Date: 2021-02-20 09:14:43
Author: Samuel Mensah
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Registration and presentations: Registration is free and ends before March 14, 2021. If you are interested to present your research on biological control of FAW in Africa, please submit your paper on-line (a title and a short abstract, max 100 words) before February 22, 2021. Kindly follow the link below for further details https://www.faw.iwgo.org/
Post Date: 2021-02-11 10:04:21
Author: Samuel Mensah
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Research says compared with maize monocropping, intercropping with legumes, Phaseolus vulgaris L. var. Roscoco can reduce the larval population by enhancing mortality rate. Underlying mechanisms are antixenosis and antibiosis effects along with trichome-based plant defence mechanisms. In the push-pull system, planting Silverleaf desmodium, Desmodium uncinatum as intercrop “push crop” can repel FAW moth because of …
Post Date: 2021-02-01 02:06:40
Author: Sundar Tiwari
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Two potential cover crops such as cowpea and sunnhemp have the potential to reduce the larval population of #fallarmyworm by lengthening the developmental time and increasing larval mortality. The other cover crops such as either corn or sorghum-sudangrass are two more preferred crops for the fall armyworm. Hence there is a potential to design a …
Post Date: 2021-01-21 15:26:56
Author: Sundar Tiwari
Community Questions
For the successful #fallarmyworm management in maize crop, various intervention approaches should be adopted in integrated ways. Adopting a single pest management approach may not be able to keep the pest below the economic threshold level. Hence the integration of various approaches at a time or on a regular basis is suggested for the successful …
Post Date: 2021-01-04 22:16:08
Author: Sundar Tiwari
Community Questions
Maintaining crop and non-crop diversity from field to landscape-level are more useful for the natural enemies and improve conservation biological control by increasing their fitness. These measures which are popular in our communities are crop rotation, intercropping, mix-cropping, maintaining diverse field margins with many flowering and non-flowering plants, increasing the forest diversity at a landscape …
Post Date: 2020-12-24 02:19:57
Author: Sundar Tiwari
