Lawn Problems Go Deeper than Drought
Research Triangle Park, N.C. – You may think last year’s drought caused the brown spots on your lawn, but chances are the problem goes much deeper. Grubs, the larvae of beetles (including Japanese beetles) could be living under your grass. They eat away at your yard without you even knowing they’re there.
To tell if you’ve got grubs, look for brown patches, a soft, spongy feeling underfoot, or grass that easily lifts up or rolls back revealing small white, C-shaped larvae. Also, check out what else is eating your yard. Raccoons, skunks, moles or even birds digging into your dirt could mean you’ve got a problem.
Grub control is essential for a healthy lawn because today’s grubs become tomorrow’s beetles. First grubs feed to destroy your turf in the spring, then they surface in the summer as beetles and feed on your foliage. These beetles then lay eggs that hatch to become grubs that damage your lawn all over again.
“Grubs are very frustrating for many homeowners,” says Bayer Advanced garden expert Lance Walheim, author of Lawn Care for Dummies. “The lawn can look great early in the year then quickly turn into a disaster by late summer. The key is to take preventive action early.”
Here’s how the grub-to-beetle life cycle works, and how the white, worm-like larvae wipe out your lawn:
- From March to May, grubs wake up from winter. They start chomping on grass roots, killing your turf piece by piece.
- From May to August, the grubs turn into beetles that come out to feed on your garden foliage and flowers. After their feeding frenzy, they lay their eggs all over your lawn.
- Beginning in mid-July and lasting through October, the eggs hatch into new grubs, and the cycle of feeding and destruction starts all over again.
Bayer Advanced offers two products that target grubs. Bayer Advanced™ 24-Hour Grub Killer Plus Granules is a ready-to-spread granular product for use when grubs are actively destroying your lawn and you need the quickest results. It works overnight to kill destructive grubs plus it also kills ants†, chinch bugs, crickets, cutworms, earwigs, grasshoppers, webworms, sow bugs and ticks.
Bayer Advanced™ Season-Long Grub Control Granules with Merit® has a dual-action formula that creates a protective zone in your soil to control grubs before they do damage and helps revitalize your lawn at the same time. It also kills mole crickets and European crane fly larvae. One application, applied any time from spring to late summer, protects throughout the entire season while strengthening and revitalizing stressed lawns with essential nutrients.
†Ants except Carpenter Ants, Fire Ants, Harvester Ants, and Pharaoh Ants.
About Bayer Advanced
Bayer Advanced lawn and garden products are created by Bayer Environmental Science, a business unit of Bayer CropScience LP and part of the Bayer AG family, a Fortune Global 500 company that makes such well-known brands as Bayer Aspirin, Aleve® and Alka-® Research Triangle Park, NC, is the business headquarters of the company''s NAFTA Region. Kansas City, MO, is the company''s core technology center. The global headquarters of Bayer CropScience is located in Monheim, Germany.
Bayer Advanced products deliver Better Science. Better Results.™ and carry a money-back guarantee. They are available at major retailers and independent garden shops across the United States. You can learn more by visiting www.bayeradvanced.com or by calling 1-877-BAYERAG.
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