Claim · model-written summary
This case study confirms the first instance of armyworm immigration into Gilgit-Baltistan.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume0 - Interactor
- armyworme3pest
- Outcome
- first instance of armyworm immigratione3
- Setting
- Gilgit Baltistan (GB)e7
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The field survey revealed that the pest primarily targeted wheat, beans, maize, berseem, clovers, forage grasses, and vegetables”
e3“This case study confirms the first instance of armyworm immigration into GB”
e7“has recently spread to Gilgit Baltistan (GB)”
Title
Zakir Hussain; Iqbal Hussain; Aqleem Abbas; et al. Plant Protection 2023. doi:10.33804/pp.007.03.4713
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation The armyworm primarily targeted wheat, with beans, maize, berseem, clovers, forage grasses and vegetables also attacked.
- Observation Suspected armyworm moths captured in the field were identified as Mythimna unipuncta by morphological analysis.
- Observation The armyworm outbreak persisted in the districts until the end of June 2022.
- Observation In April 2022 the armyworm invaded crops in the districts of Gilgit, Nagar, Hunza, Diamer and Baltistan.
- Mechanism The armyworm invasion might be attributed to climate change observed over the last 4-5 years in Gilgit-Baltistan.