Grubs may be the first thing you think of when you see unsightly bare areas in your lawn. However, other common lawn problems, including disease and drought, can cause bare spots in your turf, too. So ...

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 ...

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.

Grubs can be a problem in lawns some years. Adult beetles will be attracted to irrigated lawns that are surrounded by dry lawns to lay their eggs in early summer. If the season is dry and you are the ...

Grub worms can be one of the trickiest pests to deal with in your garden. The soil-dwelling larvae are hard to spot without digging up a patch of your yard and treating the problem can be just as ...

If you dig holes in the garden or lawn in May, you are likely to find an occasional c-shaped white grub. Many people get very excited about grubs in May. I generally tell them that grubs are not that ...

Q: Why isn’t milky spore bacterium recommended here for grub control? I thought we had Japanese beetles and they were the same as all the other June beetles and grubs eating the roots of our plants. I ...

It will soon be time to apply preventive insecticides for white grub control. These applications are needed on Kentucky bluegrass lawns with a recent history of damage and only if a homeowner chooses ...

What the heck is milky spore? Stephen in Ellicott City writes: “When is the best time to apply milky spore to control Japanese beetle grubs in the lawn? How should it be applied, and how often should ...

Columnist Tom Yoder looks forward to seeing many of these colorful daffodils this spring. It’s coming soon to a theater near you — that grandiose outdoor theatre of Mother Nature’s spring. Slowly but ...

What is this flower? It’s such a strange color — brownish red? We just realized it is on several trees in our wooded area. Pawpaws produce a strange fruit, too, with a taste suggestive of bananas, ...