Chinch bugs are back, and they are early. They are primarily a pest of St. Augustine lawns. Chinch bugs have a piecing/sucking mouthpart which allows them to feed into the base of a turf blade. Their ...

Chinch bugs can kill St. Augustinegrass in hot sunny areas of the lawn Chinch bugs are a common pest of St. Augustinegrass and often cause significant damage or death during the hot summer months.

As summer temperatures begin to skyrocket, plants in SaddleBrooke begin to house two typical nuisance insects: boxelder bugs and chinch bugs. Boxelder bugs are a species of "true bugs" (order ...

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 ...

Our cool-season lawns can take quite a beating during hot, dry summers. Cool season grasses will go dormant if rainfall is scarce. Growth slows or stops completely and the lawn turns brown. Usually, ...

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.

Methods used to obtain information on the relative efficacy of 24 insecticides, in the laboratory, against adult chinch bugs are described. Adult chinch bugs were directly exposed to the insecticides ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

There are bugs aplenty in our yards and gardens, but some of them do far more harm than good. If you've never heard of chinch bugs, that doesn't mean you haven't had them in your yard before. If ...