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Chinch Bugs

Adult southern chinch bugs are small and slender, 1/6 to 1/5 of an inch long. They have black bodies with white wings. Each wing bears a distinctive, triangular black mark.

Chinch Bugs Can Ruin Your Lawn

While chinch bugs are feeding, they block the conduction of water and food to the plant, which causes the vessels of grass stems to constrict. By the chinch bugs blocking the water, the leaves wither and food doesn’t get to the roots, resulting in dead turf.

Chinch bug damage generally occurs during the hotter, dryer weather from June into the month of September. It’s first detected when irregular patches of turf begin to turn yellow then straw colored. 

Close-Up of a Chinch Bug
• Grass Infected By Chinch Bugs

Bugs Be Gone

If you are consistently watering but still noticing straw-colored areas that are spreading, this could be due to Chinch Bugs. 

Contact the team at Grass Master to take care of these pests.

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