Summary of Fall Armyworm Responses to Environment

Summary of evidence for Fall armyworm developmental and population responses to the environment, and impacts on maize at different life stages. All papers studied Fall armyworm in or from locations where populations are established year round (i.e. are not migratory). Papers were sourced through searching Web of Science, and bibliographies of papers. Papers in English, Spanish, Portuguese were studied, though a few potentially relevant references for which we could not source PDFs were excluded. Findings where effects were not significant are included, but effects only reported if a statistical test was done. Information in grey shaded cells were included in life-cycle diagram, Fig. 1. “RH” is Relative Humidity, “N” is sample size. Unless otherwise noted, moths were reared on fresh corn or an artificial diet. In some cases the statistical approach might be criticised by modern standards. Measurements are grouped according to the environment or crop variable studied, and then ordered according to life-cycle stage from egg to adulthood.