Integrated pest management

Updated May 27, 2026

• Turf IPM topics, concepts and practices
• IPM planning tools
• Fungicide combination products: decision-making tools
• IPM photography tips
• How we review products and practices

Guides

• Fungicide selection
• IPM template
• Turf disease common names
• Turf disease, insect, and weed references

Diseases

• Common names for diseases
• Shipping turf samples
• Algae
• Anthracnose
• Bacterial decline
• Bacterial wilt
• Brown patch
• Brown ring patch
• Dollar spot
• Fairy ring
• Gray leaf spot
• Large patch
• Localized dry spot
• Leaf spot and melting out
• Mad tiller disease
• Pythium
• Pythium root dysfunction
• Rapid blight
• Red thread
• Rust
• Slime mold
• Snow mold
• Southern blight
• Spring dead spot
• Summer patch
• Summer programs
• Take-all patch
• White leaf

Weeds

• Crabgrass
• Moss
• Nutsedge
• Poa control
• Poa and degree days

Insects

• Annual bluegrass weevil
• Ants
• Billbugs
• Black cutworm
• Black flies
• Black turfgrass ataenius
• Crane flies
• Earwigs
• Flea beetles
• Mealybugs
• Rove beetles
• Seed corn beetles
• Sod webworm
• Thrips
• White grubs
• Wireworms

Other invertebrates

• Bryozoa
• Earthworms
• Nematode biology
• Nematode management
• Quagga mussel
• Zebra mussel