| By Guest Blogger Raymond Web |
| Just like your home, your yard can get infested with pests. The lawn is one area that is ideal for pests to build their nests. Once they invade the lawn, it becomes fairly easy for them to come inside and infest your home. |
| Pests come in all types; no matter how big or small your lawn is, they will infest it. If you don’t do anything about it, they will enter your house to damage your property and pose a threat to you and your family. |
| Common Lawn Pests |
| Wondering what pests are problematic? Check out our list of common pests. |
| Ants: Ants are not a direct threat to lawns, but they are a nuisance. Some ants like fire ants build anthills while some ants like carpenter ants infest wood and other items built with wood. |
| Hornets & Wasps: It is best to keep wasp away from your lawn and your homes. However, before taking any action to address wasp infestation, make sure you know the species. Some species are aggressive, and their stings may cause an allergic reaction in many people. It is recommended to take help from a pest control expert to tackle wasp infestation. |
| Armyworms: Armyworms are smooth-skinned, about 1 1/2 inches long, striped, and generally are yellow, dark brown, green, or black in color. They feed on grass and create brown patches on them. |
| Billbugs: These grubs are C-shaped, about 3/8 of an inch long with red-colored heads. They damage the turf in irregular patches. |
| Burrowing & digging mammals, mice: Moles, gophers, chipmunks, or groundhogs dig the ground and form tunnels. They are also responsible for creating mounds. |
| Grubs (Chafer grubs, White grubs): Masked chafer grubs eat the roots of lawn grasses, and create irregular patches of brown. |
| Green June Beetle Grubs: These cream-colored beetles with orange-brown headscreate tunnels in the lawn, which dries the soil and makes it spongy. |
| Cutworms: Cutworms can have a devastating effect on the plants, including holes in the leaves and fallen plants. |
| Fleas: Fleas don’t harm the lawns, but they can be a nuisance for people or pets using the lawns. |
| Mosquitoes: Mosquitoes do not damage the lawn, but they can transmit a number of diseases to humans through their bites. |
| Ticks: These small parasitic arachnids feed in the blood of their host and swell up. They are not a threat to the lawns, but they can cause harm to humans and pets. |
| Sod webworm: These pests eat the foliage and not roots. Hence they leave the area of the lawn brown or completely bare. |
| Landscaping Ideas to Keep Your Lawn Pest-Free |