Our expert offers eco-friendly gardening tips and advice on chinch bugs in St. Augustine lawns and choosing umbrella-shaped trees for sunny spots.

A common lawn pest in Houston, the chinch bug is beginning to emerge from a season of breeding and the small black and white insect is already causing severe damage to grass roots in the area. It's a ...

Our cool-season lawns can take quite a beating during hot, dry summers. Cool season grasses will go dormant if rainfall is scarce. Growth slows or stops completely and the lawn turns brown. Usually, ...

Chinch bugs are back, and they are early. They are primarily a pest of St. Augustine lawns. Chinch bugs have a piecing/sucking mouthpart which allows them to feed into the base of a turf blade. Their ...

Chinch bugs have been a problem for area lawns. Watch for damage and treat promptly. (LSU AgCenter) Chinch bugs, which are most damaging during hot, dry weather, often begin to show up in late June ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Homeowners across the area are seeing unusual brown spots spreading through their lawns, and experts say tiny insects could be to blame. Mark Wilson with the LSU AgCenter says chinch ...

Many of us pride ourselves on maintaining a lush, full lawn. And many may shudder at the mention of chinch bugs. The southern chinch bug can be a rapidly progressing, problematic pest throughout our ...

But one of those bugs, though nearly invisible, is making an early appearance in northwest Houston, and it's costing homeowners hundreds of dollars in lawn repairs. A common lawn pest in Houston, the ...

Heat, disease, and simple lack of water aren’t the only reasons a lawn might brown in summer. Often overlooked is the damage caused by a pair of small grass-eating bugs that are active in summer – sod ...

A pearly crescentspot butterfly sips nectar on Rudbeckia "Goldsturm," a great summertime flowering perennial. Hot and dry — typical August conditions for East Texas! Time to hunker down, avoid mid-day ...

The heat is on. And the rain isn’t. I got a call the other day asking if I had been seeing any chinch bugs around town and I had to admit that I really hadn’t, but I was expecting them very soon. When ...

Big ugly brown patches, splotchy dead zones and crunchy turf are all things we would rather not see in our lawns. With cooler days ahead, lawns in our area are breathing a sigh of relief and ...