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Identification

The first step in pest management is to accurately identify the pest. Pests often look different in various stages of their life cycle and methods to successfully manage them vary depending on their present stage of development. 

Weeds

Turfgrass Weeds (Index) 
Annual Bluegrass
Birdsfoot Trefoil
Black Medic
Broadleaf Plantain 
Buckhorn Plantain 
Common Bermudagrass 
Common Chickweed 
Common Mallow 
Common Purslane 
Dandelion
Fountain Grass 
Goosegrass
Ground Ivy
Henbit
Large Crabgrass

Mouse-Ear Chickweed
Nimbleweed
Orchardgrass
Pineapple Weed
Prostrate Knotweed
Prostrate Spurge
Purple Deadnettle
Quackgrass
Roughstalk Bluegrass
Smooth Crabgrass
Tall Fescue
White Clover
Wild Garlic
Wild Violets
Yellow Nutsedge

Conditions

Weeds are not the cause of poor turf; they are the result of poor turf conditions. Here are some conditions along with weeds that are often found there:

Deep Shade: Ground Ivy; Wild Violet; Common Chickweed

Compacted Soil: Prostrate Knotweed: Goosegrass; Prostrate Spurge; Annual Bluegrass

Poor Drainage/Excess Moisture: Yellow Nutsedge; Moss; Annual Bluegrass

Low Nitrogen/Poor Fertility: White Clover; Black Medic; Birsfoot Trefoil

Heavy Wear: Common Yarrow; Annual Bluegrass 

Weed Pics

Annual Bluegrass - Winter Annual

Diseases

Gray Snow Mold 
Pink Snow Mold
Leaf Spot/Melting Out
Red Thread
Dollar Spot
Brown Patch 
Gray Leaf Spot 
Anthracnose 
Pythium Blight 
Rust Diseases

Powdery Mildew  
Slime Molds  
Fairy Ring  
Take All Patch  
Summer Patch 
Necrotic Ring Spot
Rhizoctonia Large Patch 
Yellow Patch  
Smut Diseases

Conditions

Disease Pics

Anthracnose

Insects

Insects (Overview)
White Grubs
Ants
Chiggers
Japanese Beetles
Billbugs

Insect Pics

Ants

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