Damn, I hope it is not the fall armyworm, he thought to himself, again. It was the dreaded fall armyworm, and it had the potential to drive an entire nation into hunger and famine. And so, barely a year on the continent, the fall armyworm has lived up to its fame. Even worse, at the larva stage, the fall armyworm is a cannibal, feeding on other larvae, meaning at maturation it colonises huge swathes of land. The fall armyworm, on the other hand, is not loyal to the natural laws of food-chain dynamics.

Source: Daily Nation May 08, 2017 19:17 UTC