Insect Database

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.

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.