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Managing Insects And Lawn Pests
Insects can take a big bite out of your lawn and garden but thankfully today there are easy ways to control garden and lawn pests.
The first step in controlling pests is to identify which kinds you have. There are many common species but mostly these are localized so you should find out which ones are common to your area and how to identify them.
check the flowers, leaves, shrubs and grasses in your yard for any strange looking bugs and try to match them to photos of bugs that you see on the Internet or in books. Lookup the particular plants that you are having problems with to find what pests usually bother these plants.
Many times the insects will hide and you have to make a guess by noting the damage that they do to your plants. Rosebushes often contain aphids but these are hard to spot. Grass often is infested with grubs but you cannot see them unless you go digging in the soil.
If your grass has round brown spots, this may indicate a Japanese beetle problem, or more particularly a problem with their larva - grubs. This is particularly true if you have patches of grass that you can lift right up from the soil easily.
Luckily you can eliminate most grubs and other insects cheaply, safely and easily with modern control. This doesn’t mean you have to use chemicals - you can also use biological control methods. These organic methods are better for you as well as the environment and are becoming more popular. To control grubs in your yard, you might consider a substance named 'milky spores' .
This biological method may be more expensive as a 30 pound bag of chemical killer might cost you $10 where a 1 L bottle of milky spore will cost you $30. However, the milky spore’s effectiveness lasts for 10 years. Milky spore is a natural compound and it has living organisms that stay in your lawn interrupting the growth cycle of the grubs. The spores are harmless to you and your lawn and you have a natural method of getting rid of grubs.
There are other methods to get rid of other garden pests that are safe and good for the environment too. Should only resort to chemical insecticides if it is absolutely necessary.
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