Could this white fungus stop the march of the pest fall armyworm in its tracks?

Wrapped in fungus, these fall armyworms look like they have been dipped in white chocolate.

But the white coating is actually a pathogenic fungus that eats the worm from the inside out, and it was recently discovered by a newly graduated agronomist at a property near Beaudesert in southern Queensland.

It has been one year since the exotic pest flew into Australia and spread quickly through Western Australia, the Northern…