Insect Database

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

Annual Bluegrass Weevils emerge above the soil to feed on other plant crown areas. Damage usually appears as small, yellow to brown spots.

Bluegrass billbugs in cool-season turf and bermudagrass, and hunting billbugs in zoysia are two major weevil species responsible for severe turfgrass damage.

The small black turfgrass ataenius beetle favors golf course turf.

White grubs are the C-shaped larvae of many different beetles, including Japanese, May/June beetle, Oriental, Asiatic garden, European chafer and masked chafer.

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.