The "Armyworm" caterpillars often March through Turf
Eating Everything in their Path


Caterpillars a semitropical pest on both cool and warm season
turfgrasses. One group is known as the armyworms, which go by names
like armyworm, fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda),
cluster cutworm, etc. The one mentioned here is the fall
armyworm.

The fall armyworm can cause damage to short cut turf found on golf
course greens, and tees. During mid-summer populations can grow to
such huge number that en masse they can literally "mow off" grass
in fair...