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hammer
08-10-2010, 01:32 PM
Army worms are eating my grass to the ground ive never seen this many before i put seven dust around all of my bananas it seems to be working I worked on a farm years ago i seen army worms destroy a crop of rice in one night.i live on the crowleys ridge hills i have never seen them here.

saltydad
08-10-2010, 05:47 PM
I had never heard of armyworms before, Shannon. After Googling, I'm glad I don't have them. Good luck. Sounds like Sevin is indeed the way to go.

MediaHound
08-10-2010, 06:46 PM
Good luck with that.. never heard of them either till now but hope you don't loose all your grass and other plants.

pitangadiego
08-10-2010, 07:36 PM
Call in the Marines!!

hammer
08-10-2010, 07:53 PM
The seven dust is holding them off my bananas across form my house 450 acre cattle farm i talked to the guy who owens the ranch he told me they lost all of the alfalfa hay and bermuda hay do to army worms they have been spaying insecticide i guess they pushed them into my yard grasshopper are out of control here to i have never seen anything like this .

imclueless17
08-10-2010, 08:09 PM
:pics:
:D

hammer
08-10-2010, 08:28 PM
:pics:
:D

iv been to busy trying to save my plants today and my garden. if there still there tomorrow i will take some pics.

hammer
08-11-2010, 06:40 PM
here is a pic of an army worm these are some ugly little critters
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=35639&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=35639&ppuser=3875)

Richard
08-12-2010, 12:11 AM
Sevin in the liquid form is more effective than the powder, or if you have a pesticide applicators license obtain "Intrepid". See this related post: http://www.bananas.org/f2/how-rid-all-bugs-soil-pots-12283.html#post138398

jeffreyp
08-12-2010, 02:31 AM
parasitic nematodes and Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are natural effective controls of army worms.

Richard
08-12-2010, 04:12 AM
parasitic nematodes and Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are natural effective controls of army worms.

A few army worms -- yes. An infestation -- no. I hope you never experience the problem. Further, BT is largely ineffective in the western U.S. due to natural enemies that consume it.

jeffreyp
08-12-2010, 04:51 AM
if you had chickens in your yard they would wipe them out in an instant. Chickens and ducklings are greedy eaters of any larvae..

Richard
08-12-2010, 08:38 AM
if you had chickens in your yard they would wipe them out in an instant. Chickens and ducklings are greedy eaters of any larvae..

You don't understand the nature of army worms. A farmer can have a partial infestion of 100 sq.ft. in the afternoon, try treating it with a bacterial or pyrethrin/pyrethroid/saffra approach, then wake up the next day to find the critters have completely destroyed 40 to 100 acres.

Chickens are a poor choice in most situations because they also destroy plants.

hammer
08-12-2010, 10:23 AM
Sevin in the liquid form is more effective than the powder, or if you have a pesticide applicators license obtain "Intrepid". See this related post: http://www.bananas.org/f2/how-rid-all-bugs-soil-pots-12283.html#post138398 I have been useing malathion around my bananas and then using seven dust.

Blake09
08-12-2010, 11:44 AM
YouTube - guinea fowl hanging out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY9AAM1SyA0)

guinea fowl are great, they dont scrach, or touch garden plants. Adult guinea fowls diet consests of about 90% bugs... crickets, grasshoppers, aphids, ticks, etc...

I have some guinea fowl and they do great at eating bugs, I havent had any problems yet.

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If you cant have animals I think 7 dust or other pesticides are your best option.

hammer
08-12-2010, 11:57 AM
YouTube - guinea fowl hanging out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY9AAM1SyA0)

guinea fowl are great, they dont scrach, or touch garden plants. Adult guinea fowls diet consests of about 90% bugs... crickets, grasshoppers, aphids, ticks, etc...

I have some guinea fowl and they do great at eating bugs, I havent had any problems yet.

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If you cant have animals I think 7 dust or other pesticides are your best option. Guinea are great my mom had alot of them there were no ticks in her yard i cant have ay here dogs would get them dogs roam free there are no leash laws here. there are 2 pit bulls that are killing cattle so far they have got 10 cattle there was 3 the farmer shot one and killed it it had the cow by the neck.

Richard
08-12-2010, 12:40 PM
The Guinea Fowl are great for removing aphids, larger caterpillars, giant whitefly nests, etc. They will do nothing to control underground larvae which natural pyrethrum extract does so well plus all the other nuisance insects -- and at far less expense. If you are growing herbaceous plants then the Guinea Fowl will both pluck and trample the seedlings. Guinea Fowl will not control army worms because they can't consume them fast enough and will instead spread the little hitch-hikers far and wide. I hope that in the future people here with no direct experience with a particular pest or control method refrain from posting instead of indirectly contributing to the spread of a world-wide agricultural problem.

jeffreyp
08-12-2010, 07:36 PM
You don't understand the nature of army worms.
Chickens are a poor choice in most situations because they also destroy plants.

I never had a problem with my hens disturbing my banana plants. I suppose your comments are relevant if this site was called tomatoes.org or spinach.org.


Guinea Fowl (http://kohamnranch.com/Guinea_Fowl.php)

al.com: Special Report (http://www.al.com/specialreport/mobileregister/?urban.html)

Richard
08-16-2010, 02:50 PM
Here's some photos of the adult armyworm:
armyworm larvae adult - Google Image Search (http://www.google.com/images?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=armyworm%20larvae%20adult&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1600&bih=779)
I hope you don't find any of them at your place!

bigdog
08-18-2010, 05:32 PM
Bifenthrin (7.9%) works well to kill Armyworms. I know this because I spray it on them for my job. Use a dilution rate of one ounce per gallon. The brand name we use is Menace, and it is effective against a very large number of insects and spider mites. I've seen Armyworms destroy half of a yard almost overnight here in Nashville.

Frank

LilRaverBoi
08-18-2010, 09:35 PM
Hmmm....I've never heard of those either. But now that I've seen a picture, I did have a couple on my tomato plants so far! It was definitely not a tomato hornworm, but looked just like the pic shown!

And PS....guineas are AWESOME! Very cool fowl to have around! I especially like the buff, violet and coral blue ones....very pretty!

MediaHound
08-18-2010, 09:35 PM
Hammer, how is the situation now?

caterpower
09-07-2013, 04:01 PM
I have 31 guineas and none of them will eat army worms! The White Leghorns are the only ones of the 10 or so different types of chickens I have that will actually eat them. They are not very excited about them and will forgo them for crickets, grasshoppers, roaches, etc.

2woodensticks
09-07-2013, 07:34 PM
Army worms are eating my grass to the ground ive never seen this many before i put seven dust around all of my bananas it seems to be working I worked on a farm years ago i seen army worms destroy a crop of rice in one night.i live on the crowleys ridge hills i have never seen them here.

try a little [de earth] mix in some soap and cooking oil or if you want insecticide oil..works for me come tomato growing time.