Cyanobacteria (A.K.A. blue-green algae): WANTED for causing serious damage to turf

There are three widely shared misconceptions about the small, photosynthetic microbes that produce dark crusts and slime layers on putting green soils and foliage. The first is that all of these organisms are algae, when in fact many of them are cyanobacteria - microscopic organisms that are very different from true algae. The second misconception is that these organisms don’t cause direct damage to turf, but are instead only secondary problems that result after turf has been stressed by disease,…