Grub Worms Found In Your Lawn
Ok guys, listen and read carefully – grub worms are a real threat to lawns across the United States and if you have an infestation, you are going to lose big areas of your lawn or even the whole thing. I am a HUGE proponent of natural lawn care, but there are times when you gotta break out some pesticides to ensure your lawn stays safe. But the WAY YOU DO IT can still be minimal impact and get maximum results. We call this “Integrated Pest Management.”
Brown Spots – Is It Grub Worms?
Towards the latter part of the summer, I get dozens of emails from people wondering why and what those brown areas are in their lawns. Now, there are any number of reasons your lawn turns brown in the summer. It could be from poor irrigation, heat stress, sod web worm insects, dollar spot fungus or maybe, just maybe — GRUB WORMS!
what caused these brown areas?
What you need to do is get down on your knees and start digging in that lawn! try to pull up the brown grass and see what you find. The tell-tail sign that you have grub worms is your lawn will pull right up and roll back like you are rolling back a carpet.
Does the lawn peel back?
Once you peel back the lawn, start looking for little shrimp underneath – if you find them, then you have grub worm issues. I also recommend you look in several places. Look around the edges, in the middle of the brown spots, everywhere. If you find them, this is what they look like.
lawn grubs
How To Kill Grubs
Now you are going to need a pesticide to kill these guys. I know you want your lawn to be natural, but would you have it become naturally DEAD? No, so we need to treat it, but do it responsibly! Use the product below, use a hand spreader and only apply the product to the brown areas and 24″ outside of the brown areas. Don’t blanket treat the lawn. This is what we call Integrated Pest Management – just using enough pesticide to cure the problem but not going overboard. Be sure to water in the treatment immediately and then go ahead and re-seed in 3 weeks. Remember, the idea is to only put the pesticides in and around the affected areas and no where else. Of course, you need to monitor the situation to see if damage shows up in other areas of the lawn. The idea is to be conscious of what you are doing!