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hiptfarms

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Anybody else out there being invaded by armyworms? Boy have they done a number on some of my smaller pastures. They seem to move in nd strip a place in the span of a couple days. I try to keep my chickens on alert and and hope these terribly hot SC days will bake em!
 
hiptfarms said:
Anybody else out there being invaded by armyworms? Boy have they done a number on some of my smaller pastures. They seem to move in nd strip a place in the span of a couple days. I try to keep my chickens on alert and and hope these terribly hot SC days will bake em!
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We get them down here every now and then in the bermnuda grass fields but not this year. Attack chickens? Sounds like you got something there :-) !


How hot is it getting in SC? About 100 F here today.
 
Last week was around 100 everyday with the humidity putting it at 107 heat index. We had a little "cold front" come through yesterday putting us down in the chilly range of 94 with the humidity at 89 percent. We've been having August weather now since the end of May. Not much rain to speak of. Seems I must have a giant umbrella over my place. Some of he horses are having a hard time with the heat and the gnats. They've been the worst I've seen them in the 16 years I've been here.

Whine, whine. I know. Could be worse.
 
We had them here back in the summer of 2001. They strip the grass and leave the legumes alone from my experience. My Mom was on the news, I was working about 2.5 hours North at a large dairy farm that summer. They harvested all their barley silage a little early, the worms were coating the fenders. I never did find out how the CP tested. Only time in my wife I saw an Army Worm invasion. I guess a while back up in Aroostook County (Far North in Maine) it was so bad that the worms would cross roads after stripping a field and cars would slide off the road.

Sweet corn growers deal with them all the time in the tips, they are a bit more intesive scouting and deal with them early, us grass farmers tend to wait until things are bad and aren't used to using pesticides on grass. As with any IPM, it comes down to the economic threshold, but you gotta scout and find them before it's too late.
 
I've had to spray all my hay ground in the past week. Use Sevin and malathion mixed. Hammers them but costs about $8 per ac. Now we could use some rain.
 
hiptfarms said:
Anybody else out there being invaded by armyworms? Boy have they done a number on some of my smaller pastures. They seem to move in nd strip a place in the span of a couple days. I try to keep my chickens on alert and and hope these terribly hot SC days will bake em!
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Nope,,no army worms around here,damn things would die of thirst,have got some hoppers tho eatin weeds.
good luck
 

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