‘‘In lawns, they usually just cause aesthetic damage. ‘‘They often cause severe damage in late summer or fall after migrating populations have increased during the season,’’ said Will Hudson, an entomologist with University of Georgia Extension. The worms had other plans.Īlmost every year in late summer, armyworms invade grass in home lawns and in hay fields and pastures across Georgia. It was tons of those darned worms traveling up the road,’’ said Cobb, a small-scale farmer in Spalding County.Ĭobb had planned to cut his field once more this season. ‘‘I pulled up to my field, and it looked like someone had pulled a truck out of the field and left tracks on the road. Finding his fields infested with tiny armyworms has the opposite effect. Eighty-one-year-old James Cobb finds mowing, raking and baling hay relaxing.
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