The worms appear to be damaging oats even more than wheat with noticeable panicle loss in some fields. Worms are starting to move into pastures and other crops as well. He expects more acreage to be treated. He also suggests the use of 5 gpa or more of water during application and avoid cutting insecticide rates. It seems to be doing a really good job and he feels that it is likely that further control measures will not be needed as the wheat should outrun any future worm outbreaks.
Some fields have few problems while areas in others have already been stripped.
A few pastures are being treated as well. Chad Norton reports that enough worms were in most fields in Lincoln county to treat but they were still low and hard to spray. Applications to about 700 acres were made on Monday. Ken Adams reports that most of the wheat in Arkansas county has been treated for armyworms. Hank Chaney reports that armyworm populations seemed to explode over the weekend and much of the wheat in Prairie county is now being treated.