There's an interesting article here about use of ICTs to fight the fall armyworm. Scroll down, and click on "read more" or go to

The Conversation https://theconversation.com/ why-african-farmers-should- balance-pesticides-with-other- control-methods-93289 From the Plantwise Blog

Esther Ndumi Ngumbi is a 2015 Food Security Fellow with the New Voices, Aspen Institute

Insect …

Ghana News Agency http://www.ghananewsagency.org/science/ghana-to-focus-on-bio-rational-products-for-management-of-faw-131321

Myjoyonline.com https://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2018/april-26th/wema-maize-shows-promising-resistance-to-destructive-fall-armyworm.php

Farming First https://farmingfirst.org/2018/05/farmers-need-long-term-and-short-term-solutions-to-combat-fall-armyworm-in-kenya/

Fall Armyworm has arrived in Kenya to stay, but while the government develops a long-term strategy, farmers need ready and …

Many thanks to John Wightman for sending this to Pestnet

GMWatch https://www.gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/18282-push-pull-technology-halts-fall-armyworm-rampage-without-gm

Recently GMWatch reported on attempts by the GMO lobby to persuade African …

SciDevNet https://www.scidev.net/sub-saharan-africa/agriculture/opinion/insect-pests-invasions-in-africa.html

Speed read

• Fall armyworm, an invasive pest, has since 2016 invaded most African nations
• But tackling insect pests on the continent has largely …

Science Trends https://sciencetrends.com/history-and-myth-the-genesis-of-modern-day-pests/

by Julio Bernal

From the Old World to the New, mythologies of origins typically portray the emergence of agriculture as a gift or blessing from benevolent gods, …

Dear all, 

Please kindly help identify this Coccinellid associated to Fall Armyworm on maize in Togo.

Kind regards.