Dilemma: should I spray for armyworms?

Marian Macdonald
Updated December 4 2019 - 11:36am, first published December 3 2019 - 11:59am
MARAUDER: Armyworms on the march are identified by three stripes along their bodies.
MARAUDER: Armyworms on the march are identified by three stripes along their bodies.

Armyworms earn their name when they arrive seemingly overnight and march across paddocks, leaving devastation in their wake.

Marian Macdonald

Marian Macdonald

National rural property writer

Writing for farmers in the Stock & Land, The Land, Queensland Country Life, Stock Journal and FarmWeekly, farming in Gippsland.

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