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Are these sod web worm webs?

Posted on 10/25/23 at 7:57 am
Posted by VanRIch
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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
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Posted on 10/25/23 at 8:04 am to
That’s some good lookin’ turf.
Whatcha got there?
Posted by ole man
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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 Ziggy
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 10/25/23 at 8:39 am to
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If you see light colored moths flying around you got em, I treated my yard last week, they were everywhere.

What did you treat with?
Posted by Chad504boy
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Posted on 10/25/23 at 8:42 am to
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What did you treat with?

Posted by ronk
Member since Jan 2015
6226 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 bayoubengals88
LA
Member since Sep 2007
18989 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 9:57 am to
quote:

What did you treat with?

I treated over the weekend. Talstar P.
I bought at Do my own.

Wayyy cheaper than paying quarterly for pest control too.
Posted by VanRIch
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Member since Sep 2007
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Posted on 10/25/23 at 11:11 am to
Centipede
Posted by VanRIch
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10438 posts
Posted on 10/25/23 at 11:22 am to
False alarm. I went and looked at them closer when I got home and there were spiders in them that had made a silky tunnel from that web into a tunnel into the ground. Pretty cool actually.



Posted by tiggerfan02 2021
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Member since Jan 2021
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Posted on 10/25/23 at 10:11 pm to
Looks like a plain old wolf spider to me.
They are all over the place in my yard/shrubs.
I figure they help keep the insects beat back so I leave them alone.
Posted by NPComb
Member since Jan 2019
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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 VanRIch
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10438 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 9:15 am to
Yes I let every wolf spider live. Saw one the other day on a wood pile that was damn near 4” across. Made my skin crawl a bit but I know he’s keeping things in check.
This post was edited on 10/26/23 at 9:17 am
Posted by ole man
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2007
11755 posts
Posted on 10/26/23 at 4:11 pm to
Talstar
Posted by StraightCashHomey21
Aberdeen,NC
Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 10/26/23 at 7:19 pm to
quote:

What did you treat with?


Wonder the same

Saw some last week as I put some granular bio advanced insecticide down as well when i sprayed some left over insecticide I had.

Haven’t really noticed them this week
Posted by AndyCBR
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Nov 2012
7556 posts
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
Posted by donut
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Member since Jan 2004
3007 posts
Posted on 10/27/23 at 11:24 am to
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That’s some good lookin’ turf.

Not for long
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