Monitoring for billbugs

Preventing damage from billbug grubs is a springtime chore. And since prevention is the name of the game for this difficult-to-control pest, monitoring is your best tool against an infestation. There are three different things to monitor for:

1. Threat temperatures: If you have had damaging billbug infestations in the past, preventive applications should be timed when a threat temperature of 60F (16C) is reached for bluegrass billbugs and other billbugs on cool-season turf. For hunting, Phoenician and other billbugs…