Citation:

6 K Hirai. 1995. Migration of the oriental armyworm Mythimna separata in East Asia in relation to weather and climate. III. Japan. Pages 117-129. In: Insect Migration: tracking resources through space and time. VA Drake, AG Gatehouse (editors). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge CB2 1RP, UK, 457 pages.

Keywords: Mythimna separata is a serious pest of gramineous crops and pastures in Asia and New Zealand, flight and migration, in Japan outbreaks are of significant economic importance, some requiring area-wide insecticidal control, life history, phenology and spread of population, origin of outbreaks, pest monitoring with light trap grid nationwide, origin of outbreaks, floods, below-average rainfall, 1987 outbreak case study, forecasting armyworm outbreaks, maps showing synoptic weather with airflows