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Early in the game, tanners with late planted corn were alerted to the problem and many elected to spray. Robert Settle coordinated the aerial spray program and we crossed our Angers and waited to observe the results. The worms kept on eating. Oh, we put a temporary dent in the population but we had two big problems: we couldn’t get the worms out where we could kill them. Many of the worms were inside the stalk or the ear and had plugged up the entrance holes with fecal matter like a cork in a wine bottle. The spray material just couldn’t get to them. On top of this, thousands upon thousands of worms were hatching from newly laid egg masses every day.
Later in the season, the fall armyworm moved into newly seeded Alfalfa. Wherever 1 stopped and marked out a square foot I could count 5 to 8 worms. Enough to eat a newly seeded field of Alfalfa down to the bare ground within a few days. Fortunately the caterpillars were out in the open and farmers were able to control them and save their Alfalfa crop.
The fall armyworm winters in Florida—Gulf Coast states, and is a regular late summer visitor to our area. A close cousin to the true armyworm, it has a different life style and usually goes unnoticed. Last year natural controls failed and the fall armyworm
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