Fall armyworm is a small caterpillar that eats maize plants and causes serious damage if not controlled early. It comes from a moth that lays many eggs on maize leaves, and when the eggs hatch, the baby worms start eating the leaves immediately. They like to hide inside the centre of the maize plant (the whorl), where they are hard to see and hard to kill. As they grow bigger, they eat more and more, making holes in the leaves that look like they were shot with a gun. If many worms attack one fi

In the maize field, the armyworm attack the maize leaves, causing damage to the maize leaves, causing major losses to the maize itself. Maize is damaged by the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiparda

close up of Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) on corn leaves, a plant pest that bites and feeds on corn shoots which causing damage to plants, slow motion shot

The corn leaves are damaged by Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda)