By Chien Hui-ju and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writerFall armyworms have been sighted at the Asia-Pacific International Baseball Training Center in Tainan, the first time the worms have been found outside of a cornfield. They could be the offspring of the first generation of fall armyworm moths that matured in Taiwan, the Council of Agriculture said, adding that it was investigating the matter. The Tainan City Government on Thursday notified the council’s fall armyworm reaction task force after the Tainan Department of Public Works reported what appeared to be worms of the order Lepidoptera, the task force said. Tobacco cutworm (Spodoptera litura) larvae and northern armyworms (Mythimna separata) were also discovered at the center, the task force said. The only other field in the area was a 970m2 cornfield, on which no traces of fall armyworms were found, it said.

Source: Taipei Times July 19, 2019 15:56 UTC