Cotton Lawn

I recently put this treatment on my grass to help kill ants. Today I went out on my lawn to check the progress, and I noticed a bunch of white fluffy cotton-like patches on the grass. It is thicker looking then snow mold. What could this be?

Snow mold was my first guess. I was thinking it may be something to do with the ants but not white.

2009-05-11 11:08:38 by Danielle

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I wanna set snow on my lawn but I am not sure how to make it stick to the ground.

Place it where you want and use landscape fabric pins to hold it in place. The metal ones work better than the plastic ones. You can get them at most L&G Centers. They're about a buck-fifty for 10 at our center and they last forever (almost).

2006-11-27 18:48:41 by liberato

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stormed last nite heavily, this morning 20 to 30 5" circles of webs? were on my lawn. not normal spider web design. more like very thin cotten ball texture..have never seen before. any ideas.....
i live in il. severe thunderstorms all night. lived at house 5 mo. new constrt,new sod. never was there before. it's even attch'd from sod to brick foundation. looks like clouds, thick texture. took pics w/camera phone. had to leave for work, curious if still there when get home.

Angel hair is an alleged substance of unknown origin, said by some to emanate from UFOs after they fly overhead. It is said to disintegrate within a short time of forming and is so named for its similarity to fine hair, or spider's webs. It is comparable to ectoplasm and pixie dust.

There have been many reports of falls of angel hair around the world. The greatest number of reports have come from the U.S.A., western Europe, eastern Australia, and New Zealand.

One of the possible explanations offered by researchers lies in the web making activities of spiders. Some types of spiders are known to migrate through the air, sometimes in large numbers, on cobweb gliders. The threads created by these airborne arachnids is delicate enough that it can dissolve upon handling.

2006-07-28 10:32:26 by lauren

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I have a cottonwood tree that has been dropping cotton on the lawn all summer. I've tried raking, is there an easier way?
I've also mowed many times.

I feel your pain There is one behind my property on city property that they refuse to take down.

I tried using a leafblower, but when the cotton is dry it's more of a mess. If it rains, or I water my lawn and the cotton gets wet, it makes it heavier and easy to use the leaf blower on.

That's the best I have been able to do. Now if I could just find some way to keep the cotton out of my pool...

2009-07-06 19:49:13 by Thurman

So I mowed the lawn and had to dump the grass in the corner of the yard and then I couldn't do anything about that pile of grass for a week due to a combination of laziness and business. It rained once. When I finally got around to cleaning it up, I noticed that the inside looked like a combination of grass and gray cotton candy. It was infested with just about every kind of bug. It didn't taste like cotton candy.

If it looks like white cottony threads it may be either actinomycetes (a kind of bacteria) or fungus but in either case this is OK. In active composting, the bacteria-fungus are the primary consumers, the organisms that eat the organic residues. This process generates heat. This is part of the overall breakdown cycle. Proteins, lignin, cellulose, carbohydrates, and other compounds are broken down by bacteria into amino acids, ammonia, simple sugars' organic acids, and carbon dioxide.
The bacteria eat their way into the centre of the pile, and are followed immediately by the whitish mycelia of the fungi which absorb the gases given off.
The insects and other invertebrates are also an active part of the process. Together with bacteria, fungi, and other microbes, these organisms make up a complex food web or energy pyramid with primary, secondary, and tertiary level consumers.
You were lucky it rained only once. This was enough moisture to keep the pile going but if the threads continued to grow it did not go anaerobic. Once the oxygen is excluded by water the smell turns very unpleasant, like bad eggs, from hydrogen sulfide gas.
If you really want to compost it add about 1.25 lbs shredded paper or 7 pounds shredded leaves per 10 pounds of grass. Mix and turn

Look at this page from ATTRA on fungi and actinomycetes
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/soilmgmt ...
Compost info from Cornell
http://www.css.cornell.edu/compost/chemi stry.html

2007-04-28 19:55:29 by Seamus