date:Aug 14, 2019
The South America tomato pinworm, Tuta absoluta, is a serious invasive species in Nigeria. Its impact on crop production is well known, but its distribution in the country is unclear. Entomologists of the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology in Nairobi (Kenya) with scientists of National Horticultural Research Institute in Ibadan (Nigeria) have mapped, between March 2017 and July 2018, the distribution of T. absoluta.
The survey was conducted in 528 different locations across 1