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Are these sod web worm webs?

Posted on 10/25/23 at 7:57 am
Posted by VanRIch
Wherever
Member since Sep 2007
10512 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 7:57 am
Got a bunch of these all over the yard. Easier to see covered in morning dew.
Posted by bayoubengals88
LA
Member since Sep 2007
19230 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 8:04 am to
That’s some good lookin’ turf.
Whatcha got there?
Posted by ole man
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
11916 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 8:21 am to
If you see light colored moths flying around you got em, I treated my yard last week, they were everywhere.
This post was edited on 10/25/23 at 8:22 am
Posted by ronk
Member since Jan 2015
6255 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 8:52 am to
It could be spiders. That webbing looks rather thick for webworms. I'd get down on the ground and look for the actual caterpillar. If you do have them Talstar will knock them out.
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
27570 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:30 pm to
The floods of 2016 brought them in. They have wrecked my yard more than once.
Posted by AndyCBR
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 10/26/23 at 7:54 pm to
As others have said the abundance of small white moths flying when you walk through or mow the yard will be the best indicator of sod webworms.

The brown patches won't be far behind. They wrecked most of my backyard in a matter of weeks a few years ago.

I used liquid insecticide I got from Lowe's, Spectracide Triazicide with success.

ETA: I suspect there is some truth to the 2016 flood. We came within a few inches of water in the house and never had trouble with these webworms for the 14 years we lived here previously.

This post was edited on 10/26/23 at 7:56 pm
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