{"id":28006,"date":"2018-10-23T17:34:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28006"},"modified":"2018-10-23T17:34:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:04:46","slug":"alarm-as-deadly-maize-pest-seen-in-karnataka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/alarm-as-deadly-maize-pest-seen-in-karnataka\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm as deadly maize pest seen in Karnataka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/alarm-as-deadly-maize-pest-seen-in-karnataka\/article24636285.ece\" rel=\"nofollow\">Alarm as deadly maize pest seen in Karnataka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News:<br \/>\n\u2981 ICAR discovered a deadly foreign maize pest in Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p>Important facts:<br \/>\n\u2981 Recently, the ICAR discovered invasive agricultural pest Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in Karnataka.<br \/>\n\u2981 This is the first report of the pest in Asia.<br \/>\n\u2981 Since then, it has threatened the continent\u2019s maize crop.<br \/>\n\u2981 First reported in Central and Western Africa in 2016, it has spread to 44 African countries presently.<br \/>\n\u2981 In India, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are at immediate risk.<br \/>\n\u2981 The confirmation of presence of this deadly pest came through DNA barcoding at Begaluru\u2019s Indian Institute of Horticultural Research.<br \/>\n\u2981 The discovery is more worrisome because the pest feeds on around 100 different crops, such as vegetables, rice and sugarcane.<br \/>\n\u2981 The first line of defence against the Fall Armyworm will be insecticides like lambdacyhalothrin.<br \/>\n\u2981 Researchers have found some natural predators such as coccinellid beetles that can aid biological control.<br \/>\n\u2981 A fungal species called Nomuraea rileyi also infects the Fall Armyworm.<br \/>\n\u2981 Africa\u2019s experience shows that pest can colonise a new continent very quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarm as deadly maize pest seen in Karnataka News: \u2981 ICAR discovered a deadly foreign maize pest in Karnataka. Important facts: \u2981 Recently, the ICAR discovered invasive agricultural pest Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) in Karnataka. \u2981 This is the first report of the pest in Asia. \u2981 Since then, it has threatened the continent\u2019s maize&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/alarm-as-deadly-maize-pest-seen-in-karnataka\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alarm as deadly maize pest seen in Karnataka<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704774749},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}