2-3 weeks out here, maybe 4. I'm not about to plant anything before the first week in October, especially with as dry as it had been. Buddy planted a few of his plots between Thomasville and Linden around labor day, for bow season. He caught a decent rain early and 3 weeks in, they were coming up pretty good. Yep, he sent me a picture yesterday in one of them that looked like it had been nuked and then a picture of him holding an army worm in his hand. There's 2 really good reasons right now, not to be planting in the south central blackbelt.

The above being said, that is the only verified, trustworthy, report of Army worms that I've heard of so far this year, so you can take that for what it's worth.