{"id":577,"date":"2016-09-16T12:15:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T19:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T13:39:52","slug":"fun-fact-friday-armyworms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fact Friday &#8211; Armyworms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fun Fact Friday &#8211; Armyworms<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Travel during the night.<\/li>\n<li>Cannot survive freezing temperatures.<\/li>\n<li>Armyworms chew the foliage of grasses and grain crops.<\/li>\n<li>Armyworm ranges in size from 1\/16 inch to 1 1\/3 inches.<\/li>\n<li>A stripe runs down the middle of the back while one stripe is present on each side.<\/li>\n<li>Armyworm caterpillar larvae have stripes running the length of their body during the fall.<\/li>\n<li>Armyworms are hairless caterpillars ranging from yellow-green in color to a dark brown or gray color.<\/li>\n<li>On the upper side of each abdominal segment on the Armyworm, you will find four dark circular spots.<\/li>\n<li>After exhausting their food supply, Armyworms travel and feed in large numbers from field to field in search of food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun Fact Friday &#8211; Armyworms Travel during the night. Cannot survive freezing temperatures. Armyworms chew the foliage of grasses and grain crops. Armyworm ranges in size from 1\/16 inch to 1 1\/3 inches. A stripe runs down the middle of the back while one stripe is present on each side. Armyworm caterpillar larvae have stripes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,104,105,30],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pest-control","tag-armyworm","tag-lawn","tag-lawn-care","tag-pest-control-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12742,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/12742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernpestcontrol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}