A fairly common question we get at the Extension office from residents each year is “What can we use to control grubs in the lawn?” There are several insecticide products available for controlling ...

Q: Two years ago I put down milky spore disease to control a grub problem in the lawn. Since I applied it, I've read that it doesn't take care of all grubs. Last year, I didn't have a grub problem.

Grubs can destroy a lawn quickly. You wake up one day and a greening up lawn isn't greening up. You might have grubs. Here are the main things you need to know to keep grubs from killing your lawn.

Quote of the week: "A good gardener always plants three seeds -- one for the grubs, one for the weather and one for himself." The telephone calls about grubs are coming in, and the grub-control ...

We are EXCITED to get our lawns going. May is here and it’s time to get planting! While you are fertilizing the lawn (with Step One: Crab Grass Preventer of course) you might notice grubs are out and ...

Q: We need to plant new grass seed and also kill grubs. I am concerned about which should come first. What is the effect of Grub-Ex on newly planted seed? How should we proceed?

Now that lawns are beginning to green up, some Midlanders are finding patches of thin or dead grass in their yards. These patches may be the result of grubs eating the root system of the turf.

Masked chafers, the "June beetles," have been flying and laying eggs for one to two weeks now. White grubs, which are the most serious and common turf insect problem in eastern Nebraska, are the ...

One of the most easily recognized insects in the home landscape is the white grub. Almost every gardener has seen white grub larvae in the soil, while installing new plants or tilling the vegetable ...