Chinch bugs typically appear insummeror in hot and dry conditions. These bugs can cause significant damage to your lawn with theirpiercingmouthparts. These mouthparts help them feed on different types of grasses. Chinch bugs insert their mouthparts into the blades of grass and suck the juices. ...
Chinch bug populations were measured before treatments and at 7 and 14 days posttreatment. Samples were made by forcing a 34.7-cm- diameter (1 ft2) metal cylinder partially into the turf, filling it with water to flood the turf and counting the chinch bugs that floated to the surface in ...
Insecticides were evaluated for control of organophosphate-resistant southern chinch bugs on 2 infested residential lawns of St. Augustinegrass, in southern Florida. Both lawns had previously been treated by a commercial lawn service with 1.12 kg of Al/ha of chlorpyrifos (the recommended rate) with...
All bugs were attracted to St. Augustinegrass volatiles when presented alone, but only males preferred the odor of grass over odor released from a chinch bug mixed-sex aggregation. When presented with a choice of grass and grass + aggregation volatiles, males preferred the combined treatment. ...
Fertilization Effects On Resistance of Captiva St. Augustinegrass to Southern Chinch Bugs and Gray Leaf Spot.Alan Wright