Earthworms are a problem, but the invasive green stinkworm is 10X worse

September 11, 2016

Those of you who deal with the problems that heavy earthworm populations cause always find this situation challenging. But you have it good, compared to superintendents in Kentucky, and possibly elsewhere, who are now coping with an earthworm known as the invasive green stinkworm, Amynthas hupeiensis. In a recent article by Carl T. Redmond and colleagues at the University of Kentucky and Michigan State University, entitled Seasonal biology of the invasive green stinkworm and control of its casts on golf…