sixdogs
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Not sure if this would work for hayfields (maybe as sprayable) but I learned how to stop army worms in your lawn. It started with our need to control Japanese beetles, and their grubs, that were devouring our lawn, my trees, bushes and surrounding soybean fields. Stick with me for a few paragraphs.
I tried the big box store poisons and results were iffy. They didn't work. However, at a commercial applicator's meeting I had a conversation with my supplier that tipped me off to a "new thinking" product that had great Japanese beetle control. He said it was comparatively expensive so few were carrying it. I got some.
The chemical is "acelypryn" and is blended into spring fertilizers. It has to be applied early spring in a narrow window with rainfall imminent but interferes with the growth of grubs. It won't hurt worms or bees and the MDSS sheet of application cautions was only one page. It takes over a year to fully work because the beetles of one year lay the grubs in your lawn for the next. That April, I put down 175 lb per acre on my lawn.
And from millions of beetles in my yard the year before we had maybe five that summer and very few in my soybeans. Wow, if I only knew earlier before I lost my fruit trees.
**Best of all, we had an army worm invasion that year and lawns were decimated. But not mine. It had zero affect on my lawn. None, nada, nothing. Also, certain other shell bugs were gone that year. Gone as in "gone".
It cost me $170 per acre for granular 0-0-7 or 15-0-0 bagged fertilizer with .067% acelypryn added to it. It's not restricted use, at least not here, and I had zero beetles this year. Maybe one grub. My bean fields aren't destroyed either. FYI.
I have read that as a spray it can be used on hayfields but Ii know nothing about this. Look into it.
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