Food Plots Their baaack!!!

[Popcorn]

Today at Cumberland City, Stewart county north side of the river!

Found over 200 acres of emerging army worm hatch with a few being an earlier hatch. Called 2 farms east of here and they have confirmed a slightly more advanced hatch.
Hoping this year is not as bad as last years hatch!

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Why the hell do they all of a sudden take residence here 2 years in a row? I've planted food plots for over 25 years and never heard of them or seen there destruction until last year!

 

[BSK]

Why the hell do they all of a sudden take residence here 2 years in a row? I've planted food plots for over 25 years and never heard of them or seen there destruction until last year!

Same. Glad I'm waiting to plant my plots this year.

 

[megalomaniac]

They start in the deepest south... larvae pupae, hatch into the moths, then if there is a consistent southerly wind flow, the new moths are carried further north and start all over again, stepwise moving farther north with each hatch. We need more north winds to stop their migration north. But too late now if they are already there.

 

[TNTreeman]

Can anything be done?

 

[TN Song Dog]

Just got my new northstar sprayer in this weekend. Time to get going on the yard!

@Popcorn what is effective and economical to spray over large areas? Bifenthren?

 

[TN Song Dog]

Can anything be done?

Spray pesticides. Last year I used the Cutter brand hose end spray you get from Walmart. Worked to mitigate damage around the house, but further out was eaten up bad. Yard hasn't fully recovered yet.

 

[Popcorn]

Bifenthren is our best hope at this point and I'm told has a residual effect for up to 20 days. Not cheap but not bad when compared to a lost crop, fertilizer and labor. This far north the damage is often beyond replant dates. I'm told commercial application by coop will run approximately $20 / acre in larger tracts.
I don't know the old standard pesticide but am told it is often not viable any longer and by the time you know it didn't work your crop is devestated

 

[tellico4x4]

Just got my new northstar sprayer in this weekend. Time to get going on the yard!

@Popcorn what is effective and economical to spray over large areas? Bifenthren?

Bif is what I sprayed last year. Might want to buy plenty when you find it as it got scarce real quick

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Bif is what I sprayed last year. Might want to buy plenty when you find it as it got scarce real quick

How did your perennial clover plots stand up to the army worms last year?

 

[tellico4x4]

Didn't touch them

 

[Tennrock]

Just got my new northstar sprayer in this weekend. Time to get going on the yard!

@Popcorn what is effective and economical to spray over large areas? Bifenthren?

I had good results last year with permethrin

 

[Popcorn]

I had good results last year with permethrin

Interesting. Do you know the mix rate, the application rate and the percentage on the permethrin?

 

[Popcorn]

Looks to be early but pics this morning in the rain. Worms found in millet, milo, Sudan grass, Sudan sorghum and late corn.
I see minor insect damage on legumes like peas, beans, buckwheat, sun hemp but can't find a worm. I found every worm I looked for on the grasses.

 

[Tennrock]

Interesting. Do you know the mix rate, the application rate and the percentage on the permethrin?

I used 13% and I believe it was 4 ounces per gallon. I'm not sure on the application rate, I have a 15 gallon pull behind sprayer with 2 nozzles and I filled it up twice for my 5-6 acre pasture.

 

[JAD]

How late do you have to plant to miss them? Is mid September late enough?

 

[backyardtndeer]

Just got my new northstar sprayer in this weekend. Time to get going on the yard!

@Popcorn what is effective and economical to spray over large areas? Bifenthren?

Bifen is effective for armyworms. You can buy by the gallon online probably as cheap or cheaper than local. I usually use talstar professional, usually buy by the gallon from domyown post control.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Bif is what I sprayed last year. Might want to buy plenty when you find it as it got scarce real quick

In stock, on sale, and free shipping https://www.domyown.com/search?w=Bifen&search=

 

[BSK]

How late do you have to plant to miss them? Is mid September late enough?

I'm sure hoping so. That's when I'm planting in an attempt to mitigate infestation. Last year, I planted mid-August and they wiped me out (anything that was in the grass family - i.e. grains).

 

[JCDEERMAN]

This really puts me in a predicament. I will be in CO the last 2 weeks of September. It's either the first 2 weeks of September, or early October.

 

[muddyboots]

Now that I see this I did see several moths today. Here they come.

 

[Popcorn]

How late do you have to plant to miss them? Is mid September late enough?

Technically a killing frost ends their reign of terror so….

 

[tellico4x4]

This really puts me in a predicament. I will be in CO the last 2 weeks of September. It's either the first 2 weeks of September, or early October.

Be glad to take your place in CO so you can plant, just saying....

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Be glad to take your place in CO so you can plant, just saying....

I know, can't complain about that. Will probably be the last year I go out there. Public land is just ridiculously over-crowded and their price-gouging on non-residents - I've just had enough of that.

 

[MickThompson]

Spray pesticides. Last year I used the Cutter brand hose end spray you get from Walmart. Worked to mitigate damage around the house, but further out was eaten up bad. Yard hasn't fully recovered yet.

Wish they'd find my yard. I hate mowing

 

[BSK]

Wish they'd find my yard. I hate mowing

Best part about the drought this summer. I think I've mowed only 4 times since the start of June.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Anyone have an update on these devils?

 

[Popcorn]

Anyone have an update on these devils?

We sprayed them just as the damage was becoming obvious. Going Wednesday to walk the fields.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

We sprayed them just as the damage was becoming obvious. Going Wednesday to walk the fields.

Let us know. If promising rain is forecasted, I'd love to plant Labor Day weekend. No sign of the devils that I saw this past weekend. Wanting to plant then, because I'll be in CO the last 2 weeks of September. At that point, I'll have to tend to the wife and earn brownie points for days off end of October and first two weeks of November.

I can't tolerate army worms and having to plant the weekend I get back and facing the wife

 

[rtaylor]

Has anyone who already have food plots up seeing any army worms?