Charles Dewhurst with his microlite: on one occasion, working on an armyworm project, he became distracted by a herd of wildebeest and crash-landed when he forgot to keep an eye on the fuel gauge - ...

The other countries are Eritrea, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Uganda, with the UN (United Nations) agency committing $500,000 (Sh70 million) towards the campaign. According to Collins Marangu, a ...

International experts will hold emergency talks in Harare on Tuesday to tackle an outbreak of crop-eating "armyworm" caterpillars advancing across several African countries. The armyworm has already ...

The African armyworm is not actually a worm at all but rather the larval (caterpillar) stage of the night flying moth, Spodoptera exempta. The normal seasonal cycle of the armyworm begins with ...