Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up of a chinch bug on the stem of a plant - Torque Foysal/Shutterstock Chinch bugs are a gardener's worst nightmare, with ...

The Southern chinch bug, Blissus insularis, can be a significant insect pest in St. Augustine grass. Chinch bug infestations typically occur during hot, dry weather, sometimes causing their damage to ...

Similar to 2023, there appears to be a potential for high chinch bug infestation into seedling sorghum in areas of south central Kansas. Growers are reporting high numbers of chinch bugs in harvested ...

Chinch bug infestations are damaging selected lawns, and they're making the selections. There's neither rhyme nor reason why they choose one lawn and skip another. I've been tending the same lawn for ...

Haley Butler, a research entomologist at the peanut and small grains unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, recently discussed her five-year research plan to help ...

When patches of lawn turn yellow and then straw-brown in the sunniest, driest parts of the garden in the middle of summer, ...

*It happened. Your worst household nightmare came true: a bug infestation. The creepy-crawlies come out of the woodwork at the worst possible time and reek havoc on your home. Even after you’ve had a ...

We’ve made it! It’s spring … finally! No more danger of freezing pipes. No more covering plants night after night. No more merely dreaming of our lush lawns and gardens. Now we can simply enjoy them.