Pesticides & Pest Management

Southern chinch bugs are common pests of St. Augustine grass in the southern United States and often cause significant damage to the turf during the summer months. This publication explains their life cycle, will help you identify them, and includes tips you can use to control their damage. (3 pages)

Fall armyworms can cause rapid, significant loss of leaf tissue in turfgrass. They feed primarily on bermudagrass, ryegrass, fescue, and bluegrass, but can also damage agricultural crops. This publication explains their life cycle, will help you identify them, and includes tips you can use to control their damage.

This publication explains the hunting billbug life cycle, will help you identify them, and includes tips you can use to control their damage.

Tawney and Southern Mole Crickets create extensive subsurface tunnels that uproot and desiccate turfgrasses, particularly on sand-based athletic fields and golf courses where it is easy for them to tunnel. This publication explains their life cycle, will help you identify them, and includes tips you can use to control their damage. (2 pages)

This publication examines common species of grubs that cause problems for pond fish in North America, explains the life cycle of each, and offers suggestions for grub management.

This 5-page publication explains how to identify and manage foraging bees, swarms, and colonies.

This 20-page publication explains how to identify and manage diseases and insect pests of pecans.

This 36-page publication explains sampling, economic thresholds, and control of more than 25 species of these pests.

To meet production goals and maintain profits, grain sorghum growers need to adopt an integrated approach to managing insect and mite pests. Integrated pest management (IPM) takes advantage of all appropriate pest management strategies, including the judicious use of pesticides. This guide explains insect pest biology, pest damage, and management options for grain sorghum production. […]