Homeowner best Management Practices for the Home Lawn
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St. Augustinegrass for Florida Lawns
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Conway Landings Florida Friendly Landscaping (Slide Show hit play after it loads)
Video Tour University of Florida IFAS Extension - Answers on Yard care
We still have another month of sod worms and
cinch bugs killing our turf!
cinch bugs killing our turf!
Cinch Bugs eat the blades of your grass turning it brown.
Sod Worms devour your turf leaving behind what looks like brown straw.
Southern Chinch Bug Management on St. Augustine Grass
Orthene can be purchased at LESCO
2968 Forseth Rd
Orlando, Fl phone 407-679-9099
Directions for Use: Earwigs, Pillbugs and Sowbugs: Apply as a coarse, low pressure spot spray to areas around doors and windows, storage areas, baseboards and other areas where these pests may enter or be found.
2968 Forseth Rd
Orlando, Fl phone 407-679-9099
Directions for Use: Earwigs, Pillbugs and Sowbugs: Apply as a coarse, low pressure spot spray to areas around doors and windows, storage areas, baseboards and other areas where these pests may enter or be found.
UF Florida IFAS Extension click on link below on how to kill Chinch Bugs
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Insect Management in Your Florida Lawn1
Eileen A. Buss and J. Bryan Unruh
Several insects and insect relatives live in Florida lawns, but not all of them hurt the grass. Many are harmless, some are beneficial, and some are pests. Only a few cause significant damage and need immediate control. For example, chinch bugs, spittlebugs, and grass scales live on the plant foliage and suck plant juices. Other pests, including sod webworms, grass loopers, and armyworms, eat the grass leaves. Mole crickets, white grubs, and billbugs live in the soil and primarily damage grass roots, in addition to creating tunnels and/or mounds. Other insects and related pests (e.g., fleas, millipedes, chiggers, sowbugs, and snails) are nuisances because they may bite people or pets or invade houses, garages, or swimming pools.
Sometimes its easy to confuse beneficial insects for pests. For example, certain insects (e.g., big-eyed bugs, anthocorids, and nabids) look like chinch bugs, but are actually predators and feed on chinch bug eggs and nymphs. Earwigs, ground beetles, and spiders search through the grass and feed on chinch bugs, webworms, and several other lawn pests. The presence of beneficial organisms likely prevents the
insect pests from increasing to damaging levels. However, such natural enemies can't kill all of the pests. A small pest population needs to survive to maintain these beneficial organisms. Preventive or by-the-calendar treatments (pesticide applications made every 4 to 8 weeks) may kill many beneficial organisms and contribute to a persistent pest problem. Thus, pesticides should be applied only when damage is apparent.
Research has demonstrated that the need for pesticide applications to control insect outbreaks can be drastically reduced by following these management practices.
Monitoring
Early detection of insects is vital to any management program. Check the lawn for pest activity every 14 days in the winter and every 7 to 10 days in the spring, summer, and fall, especially in "hot spots" where damage tends to reoccur.
Factors other than insect outbreaks may also result in thin or brown grass, including diseases,