Lawn Diseases
Mole Crickets: Treat in June, Not When You See Them
Mole crickets in a lawn are noticed in spring and autumn — the two worst times to treat. The window is small nymphs in June, and a soap flush confirms them.
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Lawn Insects & Pests
Is an insect doing this, or is it a disease?
Grubs, chinch bugs and armyworms produce damage that looks like drought or disease — and the ten-second pull test separates them. These guides cover scouting thresholds, treatment timing and when insecticide is genuinely warranted.
13 guides in this collection ·All lawn diseases
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Voles in the Lawn: The Runways Fix Themselves
Melting snow reveals the runways, and the voles usually left with it. Illinois says the lawn regrows by summer — the damage worth acting on is on your trees.
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Best Grub Killer: Two Actives, and One Aisle Full of Wrong Ones
MSU names six actives that should not be used for grub control at all — and some bags sold as grub killers contain exactly those. Two molecules do the work.
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Mosquitoes in the Yard: Four Days of Water Is All
Penn State: mosquitoes breed in any still water standing more than four days, and residential fogging is the least effective method and is not recommended.
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Ticks in the Yard: What the Spray Does Not Do
A CDC trial cut tick numbers by half and found no drop in human illness. The landscape work has a mechanism you can see — ticks will not cross hot, dry ground.
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Grub Preventer vs Grub Killer: The Bag May Be Neither
NC State: pesticide applied at any other time will be ineffective. And the cheap bags printing 'grubs' hold pyrethroids, which never reach the larva.
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Do Japanese Beetle Traps Work? Three Services Say No
Japanese beetle traps catch a lot of beetles and attract more than they catch. Three extension services advise against them — and grub control will not help either.
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Best Mole Killer: Why Most Mole Poisons Cannot Work
Moles are not rodents, so the grain baits sold for them cannot poison them — and grub control will not remove them either. What extension services do recommend.
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Do Ultrasonic Pest Repellers Work? The Testing Says No
Controlled tests have not found electronic repellers effective, animals habituate to sound, and the EPA number on the box is administrative — not an efficacy review.
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Armyworms and Sod Webworms: Which Ate Your Lawn?
Green to brown in two days means armyworms; closely cropped patches mean sod webworms. Both are caterpillars — which rules out most grub products.
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Chinch Bugs: How to Confirm Them and What Kills Them
Chinch bugs: two species, two grass families, and a float test that confirms them in five minutes. Plus the documented resistance nobody prints on the bottle.
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Fire Ants in Lawns: Kill the Colony, Not the Mound
Treating fire ants in lawns by drenching the mound kills workers and moves the colony. Bait reaches the queen — that difference is why most attempts fail.
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Lawn Grubs: How and When to Kill Them
Most lawns never reach the grub treatment threshold, so count before you buy — and curative products only work from August through October.
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