GardenTech is a registered trademark of Gulfstream Home and Garden, Inc. *These products provides up to 3 month control on all listed insects except ticks. Tip: Practice good lawn maintenance and dethatch your lawn regularly to eliminate the heavy thatch layer where adult chinch bugs overwinter and lay their eggs.Īlways read product labels and follow the instructions carefully, including guidelines for pre-harvest intervals on edible crops. The chinch bug is a destructive pest that feeds on plants in the grass family, including agricultural crops such as corn, wheat and barley. You can treat sweet corn up to three days before your harvest. Use with a pump-style sprayer, and cover all plant surfaces thoroughly. To treat for chinch bugs, you need to apply a liquid insecticide (a. See if you can spot those flea- sized bugs with white spots on their sides or the baby ones that are orange with a white ring.
#CHINCH BUGS PATCH#
Sevin ® Insect Killer Concentrate simplifies treating chinch bugs that move from lawns into sweet corn. While you’re on your hands and knees, push the grass aside and look down near the root systems near that yellow-green edge of the patch again.The higher rate may be needed during summer when both immature and adult chinch bugs are present. Apply at the rate range recommended on the product label. Water the granules in immediately after application to release the active ingredients into the thatch layer where chinch bugs dwell. Sevin ® Insect Killer Granules, applied with a regular lawn spreader, provides uniform, thorough coverage for your lawn and home perimeter.GardenTech ® brand offers highly effective controls that kill chinch bugs by contact and keep protecting your lawn and garden for up to three months*: Young plants may be killed or stunted.Ĭontrol: Treat lawns proactively early in the season to kill chinch bugs before damage occurs and the pests multiply. Corn damaged by chinch bugs takes on the same reddish- purple hue. Chinch bug-damaged grass may have a purplish tint. However, grass won't respond to irrigation, the patches expand, and grass eventually dies. Damage is most apparent in sunny locations during hot summer months, when it's often mistaken for drought. Signs/Damage: The first hints of chinch bug damage are large, scattered, irregular patches of lawn grass that begin to turn yellow and brown. Use a magnifying glass to examine your lawn's thatch layer you can see chinch bugs easily. Immature stages of the bugs are reddish and wingless, but they resemble the adults. Common chinch bugs have black bodies with white front wings and a distinctive hourglass shape on their backs. Identification: Chinch bugs are small insects measuring about 1/8 to 1/4 in length, depending on the species. If chinch bugs infest your lawn, your sweet corn patch may be next. Chinch bugs are also major pests of grain crops, including corn. These pests may have multiple generations of young each year, and adults overwinter to return in spring. As they do, they release a substance that blocks the plant's vascular system and prevents it from drawing up moisture and nutrients it needs grass dies as a result. They pierce grass blades with their mouthparts and then suck out vital plant juices. Chinch bugs are major pests of turf grasses.
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