

If you have these caterpillars they are a dull grey-green often with black markings on the sides of their bodies and about 4 1/2 cm long. The lawn armyworm eats blades of grass right down to the roots and doesn't prefer any particular type of grass. These caterpillars or lawn armyworm is different from fungal diseases of leaves because bare one leaves bare patches and the latter leaves brown patches. These bare patches are the first thing you'll notice with this particular lawn problem. Or sometimes it’s strange round spots that are either yellow, or white or just brown bare patches that seem to appear overnight. Sometimes it’s those pesky hard to get rid of weeds, like onion weed, creeping oxalis and nutgrass. With Steve Falcioni, general manager of Lawn Armywormĭid you know that the word for a patch of grass or managed grass space was called "lawn", from only about the 16 th century, but not before?ĭo you love your lawn but something seems to always attack it? You can hear samples of the album from the website PLANT DOCTOR The new theme is sung by Harry Hughes from his album Songs of the Garden. The complete CRN edition of RWG is available on, just click on 2RRR to find this week’s edition. Real World Gardener is funded by the Community Broadcasting Foundation (CBF). 5pm 2RRR 88.5fm Sydney, streaming live at and Across Australia on the Community Radio Network.
