How to Use fall armyworm in a Sentence

fall armyworm

noun

• The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda, isn’t a worm.
  — Scott D. Stewart, Chron, 17 Sep. 2021
• The fall armyworms, which are indigenous to the U.S., are the larval stage of the fall armyworm moth.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2021
• The fall armyworm can be found all over the Eastern and Central United States.
  — Sylvia Goodman, The Courier-Journal, 1 Sep. 2021
• Experts are also watching the spread of a pest called the fall armyworm, a sort of caterpillar that likes to eat rice, sorghum and corn crops.
  — New York Times, 4 June 2019
• There are reports that the fall armyworm has also reached Malawi, Mozambique and Namibia.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
• The fall armyworm is a small, unassuming caterpillar that grows to just 1.5 inches long.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
• When just a hungry caterpillar, the fall armyworm will happily munch on more than 80 plant species.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• Hot on its heels is the fall armyworm, a crop pest that could spread across the whole of the country’s 130 million hectare crop belt within a year, eating up supplies of corn and sugar cane.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2019
• The other is the fall armyworm, which is even more omnivorous and a rapidly growing problem in Africa.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 30 Jan. 2020
• The economic costs of fall armyworm invasions are high.
  — Scott D. Stewart, Chron, 17 Sep. 2021
• Corn and Beans The beans attract beneficial insects that prey on corn pests such as leafhoppers, fall armyworms, and leaf beetles.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 24 Apr. 2020
• Corn + Beans The beans attract beneficial insects that prey on corn pests such as leafhoppers, fall armyworms and leaf beetles.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 3 Feb. 2017
• The researchers inserted a gene for a human immune protein, interferon, into the virus and then used it to infect cells from the caterpillar form of a pest called the fall armyworm moth.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 3 Nov. 2020
• The study found that a particular form of CIS that acts outside of bacterial cells can kill two widely divergent kinds of animal cells, from mice and the fall armyworm.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2019
• Farmers are now being assailed by fall armyworm, a hungry caterpillar.
  — The Economist, 28 Sep. 2019
• The invasion of the fall armyworm is, naturally, causing considerable panic among African officials.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
• Created by multinational companies, these are genetically modified to resist fall armyworm.
  — The Economist, 28 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024