Some common causes of brown patches on your lawn include drought stress, dog urine, disease, or burning from too much sun or fertilizers. Armyworm caterpillars are a less common culprit. However, ...

Whoa! What’s eating my grass? If you notice your hay field or your lawn browning over the past few days, you may need to look for armyworms. Earlier in the summer, the worms can be more difficult to ...

If your lawn turns from green to brown faster than it usually does, you may want to check for one annoying insect. Armyworms are known to feed on lawns as well as plants and other vegetables. While ...

Armyworms have many homeowners upset about costly damage to their beautiful green lawns. Armyworms, known scientifically as spodeotera frugiperda, are a species of caterpillar commonly associated with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Armyworm caterpillars might sound like a military threat, but they’re actually a type of caterpillar that can wreak havoc on ...

Fall armyworms have emerged in throngs this fall across parts of Texas, where they are munching on grass and wreaking havoc. Texas A&M AgriLife / Courtesy They slither across lawns and pastures in a ...

It’s an active year for these pests in parts of the Southeast. Clint Waltz, PhD, is a turfgrass extension specialist at the University of Georgia. Fall armyworms cannot survive winters in most of the ...

An enemy may have invaded your beautiful, green lawn, leaving it ugly and brown. A wave of fall armyworms (Spodoptera frugiperda) marches through the South every year from the tropical regions around ...

This year we have seen a tremendous outbreak of armyworms affecting pastures and hay meadows. This incredibly rainy weather that we have had in the first half of the year has really provided ideal ...

South Carolinians might notice some fuzzy new visitors munching on their lawns this month. The spodotera frugiperda is actually a moth caterpillar, but its propensity to feed in large numbers in the ...

CLEMSON — In a year the Upstate has been abnormally dry, it can be hard to detect the presence of the grass-eating armyworm. But they’re here, multilegged marching through pastures and yards as they ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A pesky species of caterpillar have returned once again, with the goal of eating landscape. Armyworms are known to consume grass blades, hayfields, and pastures. They get ...