Photo Gallery: INSECT PESTS OF Turfgrass
Most insect pests of turfgrass feed by chewing or sucking specific parts of turfgrass, but some are soil distruptors. Chinch bugs suck on the crowns, grubs chew the roots, and armyworms and sodworms, both caterpillars, feed by chewing foliage. Fire ants and mole crickets are soil distruptors. However, some mole crickets feed on insect pests.
Chinch bugs
White grubs (grubworms)
Armyworm
Tropical sod webworm, larva
Tropical sod webworm
Mole cricket
Southern mole crickets
Fire ant mound
Fire ants
Two fire ant queens on pine straw.
Photo by John Moser.
Grub worm damage on a golf course
