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Solution to Garden & Lawn Pests | Ultimate Guide by TPL Pest Control
By: Ahmad Mujtaba
Having a perfect lawn with no garden pests is a must desire everyone strives for. From weeds to bugs, a variety of pests can create havoc in your beautiful lawn. It can eventually make unpleasant to enjoy the beauty of your outdoor space. We have prepared an ultimate guide to lawn pest control in order to maintain lush, pest-free environment. It’s pretty crucial to understand the correct suitable steps to maintain a healthy lawn and keep it pest-free. This comprehensive lawn pest guide will provide you with all the knowledge necessary to address any pest issue in your garden. We’ll discuss about most common kinds of lawn pests, the harm they may possess, and the precautionary measures you should take.
The most common cause of the garden & lawn pests is warm environment with ample amount of water. These conditions makes susceptible environment for various insects & pests to come & feed on grass and plants present in your lawn. Left unchecked, lawn pests may cause significant in fact serious damage to the plants & greenery inside your garden. It’s crucial to keep in mind about different categories of garden pests around there so that one can maintain effective strategy for lawn care.
Things can go out of your control & further complicated if the garden pests find a way to your household indoor plants. Monitoring regularly and having little amount of knowledge can help you to overcome these garden and lawn pests. If not getting understanding of the actual problem, feel free to reach out to our pest control experts.
This article will help you thoroughly know about the identification, damage caused and control of lawn pests & grubs. Here are some serious garden & lawn pests which can deteriorate your lawn’s plants and beauty by infesting over them if not treated on time, ultimately leaving you worried.
Common Garden & Lawn Pests:
1) Ants: Ants can be beneficial in your garden by moving organic material into the soil, creating tunnels and aerating the soil. But ants are typically visible as they search for food around your house, garden and yard. Certain ants, like fire ants, build ant hills that can be seen through the grass. Carpenter ants invade wooden materials and wooden structures. Ants are not a direct danger to yards, but they are considered as pest sometimes. They may damage plant roots as well.
Signs: Soil mounds, weakened plants, ant trails.
Control: Optiguard Ant Gel Tube & Aver Ant Gel Bait Station
2) Armyworms: Armyworms are the smooth skinned caterpillar pests found usually in lawns. They vary in color from green, yellowish, dark brown to black and they can attain a maximum length of 40mm. They can be present in larger amounts because their moth parent can lay up to 500 eggs in a single laying and then repeats the same process the following night.
Signs: Armyworms generally feed on grass plants in your lawn and garden area and create brown patches which may appear to be as drought stress in them, but it’s actually armyworms there. Control: Its sometimes become pretty difficult to control them because they spend most of their time hiding inside thick layer of soil and comes to feed on grass at night. Deltamethrin is a pyrethroid insecticide which can be effective solution to control them.
3) Cutworms: Cutworms vary in color from pink to black having stripes or spots often on their bodies. These pests can grow up to 2 inches long & curl into a C-shape when disturbed. Cutworms spend most of their day-time inside the soil. Most of their damage occurs at the night time.
Signs: Cutworms mostly cut at the stem of the plants. Short grasses are often their targeted area where they leave dead spots in the yard and chewed spots on the leaves.
Control: TPL pest control experts suggest different insecticides for cutworms such as Permethrin, Deltamethrin & bifenthrin.
4) Mealybugs: Mealybugs are the sucking insects that usually extract plant fluids. They feed on plants’ leaves present in the lawn and suck the sap from them.
Signs: Yellowing of leaves, wilting etc.
Control: TPL pest control experts suggest Carbofuran for its control.
5) Snails: Snails are considered one of the serious lawn pests. Slugs hatch from eggs, laid in clusters, under debris or under the surface of soil as they prefer moist conditions. They then continue to grow slowly, and eat vegetation.
Signs: Slime trails on soil or hard surfaces. Irregular holes in the leaves
Control: Diatomaceous earth can be used as a physical barrier to deter snails. One thing to keep in the mind is the re-application of it if rain comes.
TPL Pest Control’s Solutions:
We use a 4-step IPM program in our services to make sustainable and safe pest control as follows;
● Inspection & Prevention
● Pest Identification
● Eco-friendly Treatment
● Monitoring & Evaluation
Any Queries? TPL (PVT) pest control services are there for you just a call away!
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