Recent Advances in Fall Armyworm Research

Dear Colleagues,

The fall armyworm, an invasive pest from the Americas, is rapidly spreading through the Old World. It has a wide range of hosts and catastrophic destructive capability—it has about 353 host species, remarkably corn, with 15–73% of the yield loss of corn caused by its higher-instar larva. In this Special Issue we review the most up-to-date research developed for the biology, ecology and control of this pest.

Prof. Dr. Gao Hu
Prof. Dr. Peng-Cheng Liu
Guest Editors

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