CABI is continuing its efforts working in partnership with CHAP to research remote sensor-based pheromone trap technology to help curb the threat to livelihoods and food security in India posed by the fall armyworm pest. Invasive pests often enter into new environments or geographies unintentionally and harm local populations before they understand the approach to act against them.
Generally, public organizations run routine pest surveillance programs by visual inspections, sticky traps or pheromone traps. However, the new pests like fall armyworm, due to different biology and behaviour, gets unnoticed during the period of entry to establishment.
Source: blog.invasive-species.org