As of May 2020, it reached Mauritania, Timor-Leste and United Arab Emirates.
In January 2020 it was detected in Australia in far north Queensland, and in a mere three months was considered established in the country. Indigenous to the tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, fall armyworm in maize ( Spodoptera frugiperda) was first reported in 2016, followed by rapid spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and by 2018 began to spread like wildfire into the Indian subcontinent, China and Southeast Asia. And as if that wasn’t enough, a second – and equally devastating -transboundary and invasive pest continues to invade parts of the eastern hemisphere: fall armyworm (FAW). Last year, farmers in East Africa, Southwest Asia and areas of the Middle East battled their worst desert locust outbreak in decades.
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