- Category: Lawn Pests
Mole crickets are another garden pest that can cause damage to our Saint Augustine lawns. These unusual looking creatures will burrow and tunnel underneath our lawns in all directions, happily eating through our beautiful lawns as they go. While any type of lawn aeration is always a good thing for lawns, even from mole crickets doing the work for us,
- Category: Lawn Pests
One of the more nasty pests which often strikes fear into all lawn owners is Army Worms, which are so named because they are most often known for encroaching on lawns in very large numbers, and creating vast turf damage very quickly, as if an army had just laid siege to and destroyed our lawns. And Saint Augustine lawns are not immune to these pest invasions.
- Category: Lawn Pests
Saint Augustine grass is actually a wonderful lawn type for naturally repelling ants. And for most healthy Saint Augustine lawns - ants will rarely if ever become a nuisance. This is due to the thick thatch layer of Saint Augustine grass with its thick above ground runners called stolons, these simple factors work against the establishment of ant colonies which needs an opening
- Category: Lawn Pests
While we may think about many different lawn pests that can wreak havoc to our lawns, such as beetles, larvae, caterpillars, sod webworm etc - as a nasty nuisance and enemy of our endeavors to create and maintain our beautiful lawns, we actually have a lot of friends who view these same bugs and pests as lunch.
- Category: Lawn Pests
Billbugs are another one of our bug friends which like to lay their eggs in our beautiful lawns, unfortunately for us, these eggs hatch into larvae, which then feed on the roots of our turf, and they can destroy our lawns in the process. There are many different types of beetles which cause identical damage to our lawns in the same way
- Category: Lawn Pests
Japanese Lawn Beetle can equally affect a Saint Augustine lawn, as it can with any other lawn type. The damage from Japanese Beetle occurs when the grubs from these beetles, called larvae, eat through the roots of the sod, and damage the lawn in areas wherever they are most active. Japanese Beetle will equally enjoy eating on any of the other plants
- Category: Lawn Pests
There can be many reasons why a lot of birds will become active on a Saint Augustine lawn at any one time. When in small quantities - birds are a natural part of the world around us, and are to be encouraged. However, if we have too many birds on our St Augustine lawn, then it could be a sign that some other lawn problem
- Category: Lawn Pests
Black beetle can be a problem for owners of all lawn types, including Saint Augustine grass lawns. A native of Africa, the black beetle ges through various life stages, each of which can cause at least some damage to our lawns. But with this possible damage also comes benefits too. In every case I have ever been asked if Black Lawn Beetle
