The heat is on. And the rain isn’t. I got a call the other day asking if I had been seeing any chinch bugs around town and I had to admit that I really hadn’t, but I was expecting them very soon. When ...

The wind and the lack of rain has kept brown patch in check for the most part; however, powdery mildew, localized dry spots where irrigation is not reaching, and roaches that would normally be happy ...

The chinch bug is a nasty rascal. Only about the size of fine ground pepper it is almost impossible to see and the damage it causes can be confused between fungi, dry areas, and just dead areas.

Q: My lawn care guy is recommending that I have my lawn treated for ants and chinch bugs. What even are chinch bugs? Do I have to do this? I hate to spray insecticide all over the lawn. I have a ...

Chinch bugs are a common pest of St. Augustine grass and often cause significant damage or death during the hot summer months. Typical damage looks like drought stress, but it doesn’t respond to ...

Question: We have done our best to control chinch bugs, but they still damage our lawn. Is there a better product than what is normally found at garden centers for these St. Augustine pests? Answer: ...

CHINCH BUGS can kill St. Augustine grass in hot sunny areas of the lawn. Southern chinch bugs are common pests of St. Augustine grass and often cause significant damage during the hot summer months.

Acadiana time for another edition of your lawn and garden here with John Chastant one of the worst bugs around is this right here. Oh the chinch bug yes we really have problems around here especially ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Sep., 1974), pp. 275-279 (5 pages) Insecticides were evaluated on tropical sod webworms, Herpetogramma phaeopteralis Guenee, on Bermudagrass and on southern ...

There have been calls again this year concerning chinch bugs coming out of wheat fields and moving into adjacent milo fields. The overwintered adults emerge in early spring and fly into small grains ...

Similar to 2023, there appears to be a potential for high chinch bug infestation into seedling sorghum in areas of south central Kansas. Growers are reporting high numbers of chinch bugs in harvested ...

There have been calls again this year concerning chinch bugs coming out of wheat fields and moving into adjacent milo fields. The overwintered adults emerge in early spring and fly into small grains ...