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Controlling Harmful
Lawn Insects

Many insects are beneficial to your landscape, a few are not. Some insects can do substantial damage and often go overlooked. A few, however can cause extensive and serious damage, sometimes killing large areas of grass, especially if the grass is already stressed. Damage usually begins in scattered small patches, which may merge into large dead areas.

Insects that do infest home lawns are often difficult to observe and their presence may go undetected unless careful observation is made during the growing season. Plus, it is easy for insect damage to be mistaken for other problems such as drought damage or dog urine burn.

Grubs are the larval stage of many different beetles, including the Japanese beetle, especially in Eastern Pennsylvania. Grubs live below ground and feeds on the roots of grass plants during mid to late summer. The best time to control grubs is in early summer, just after they hatch. During this brief time they are can be treated. Our grub proof treatment will control grubs in your lawn before they can damage your valuable lawn.

Webworms can be a problem for eastern Pennsylvania homeowners. If you notice a lot of moths flying up from the grass as you walk across it in early evening, then you have sod webworms. Once the moths lay their eggs, the damage will start showing up 10 - 14 days later when their eggs begin to hatch into caterpillars. These caterpillars chew off the grass blades close to the soil's surface. Here in Pennsylvania, we see the heaviest damage in early August, although sometimes damage is seen in June. If sod webworms are present in your lawn we will treat for them.

In recent years Pennsylvania has had some severe outbreaks of tick infestations. Ticks pose no problem for lawns, but can be dangerous to family and friends, plus your pets.

Most ticks attach themselves to people and pets if given the opportunity. Pain main result from their bites. Some ticks transmit diseases, including Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis, Lyme Disease and tularemia. Even though ticks won't cause any damage to the lawn, it is important that if you have heavy tick infestations in your area that steps be taken to control them.

Do you know which insects are beneficial and which are harmful to your lawn?

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Grass Roots Lawncare has the training and knowledge to identify specific insects that can damage a lawn. Only then do we apply treatments to control these harmful insects. We can also apply special controls to reduce fleas and ticks in the lawn to help protect your family and pets from these disease carrying insects.

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