Fall armyworms are on the march, damaging pastures and row crops, the worst outbreak in 30 years.

University of Missouri entomologist Kevin Rice tells Brownfield Ag News the Midwest, Southeast and Northeast are becoming inundated with fall armyworms.

“They do eat grass, they eat soybean, they eat corn. They eat over sixty plants so they’re sort of like eating machines. In fact, they’re one of the fastest growing  animals on Earth.”

And it’s getting harder to stop them, he says, because of their resistance to pyrethroids and alternatives are in short supply.

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