The farmers' union reveals the path of the worm of the destroyed crowd until it enters Egypt

Egyptian reports

"The destructive insect is the American continent, first brought to Africa by ships or aircraft in early 2016. Then spread throughout the continent and moved from one country to another, Swept over 40 African countries.

In a statement today, Abu Saddam said that the insect is endemic in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. In the larvae stage, it can cause significant damage to crops. It favors maize, but can feed on more than 80 additional plants, including In rice, sorghum, sugar cane, vegetable and cotton crops. After the discovery of the autumnal autumn worm in 2016 in central and western Africa, it soon appeared almost in sub-Saharan Africa. Because of the trade and high capacity of the full insect on the flight, where it cuts 100 kilo per night.

He added that the worm came into the Sudan from the eastern side of Ethiopia, revealing that this insect migrates at night and spreads at a distance of 30 – 50 kilometers per day and migrates in large groups at night and feeds on leaves and fruits, and after entering the Sudan through neighboring Ethiopia from the eastern region , And entered Egypt for the first time through Sudan three and a half years after entering Africa, where the first entry of the insect to Africa in January 2016 and recorded its first appearance in Egypt in May 2019.