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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Chinch bugs, small insects with black triangular wing patches, can quickly damage lawns, especially St. Augustine grass. Homeowners can confirm chinch bug infestations using the flotation method or by ...

The Southern chinch bug, Blissus insularis, can be a significant insect pest in St. Augustine grass. Chinch bug infestations typically occur during hot, dry weather, sometimes causing their damage to ...

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.

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 ...

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 bug infestations are damaging selected lawns, and they're making the selections. There's neither rhyme nor reason why they choose one lawn and skip another. I've been tending the same lawn for ...

Big ugly brown patches, splotchy dead zones and crunchy turf are all things we would rather not see in our lawns. With cooler days ahead, lawns in our area are breathing a sigh of relief and ...

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 ...