Insect Database

Mole crickets are a major pest of turf in the southeast.

Similar to the chinchbug, greenbugs pierce leaf tissue, suck out the sap and inject salivary fluids, causing surrounding tissue to die.

Mites feed on grass by sucking fluids out of the plant causing the grass to thin.

Adult chinch bugs are about one-quarter inch long with white wings folded over its black body.

The common armyworm has two brown stripes on the head. They feed at night, hiding in the thatch during the day.

Cutworms are the larvae of large, hairy, nocturnally-flying moths.

Spotty, brown damaged areas where grass is easily pulled up above the soil and birds feeding are two signs of the sod webworms.

Fire ants establish colonies with honeycomb mounds which contain queens and up to have-a-million worker ants.