Commonly Known As...
Tree and Shrub
Turf Disease
A Bugs Life
Weeds, Man
100
Zoysia Japonica
What is Zoysiagrass
100
These insects can do a large amount of damage to azaleas, causing mottled leaf tissue. These insects and their excrement are often found on the underside of leafs. Can be controlled with a systemic soil drench.
What are Lace Bugs
100
This disease is often associated with snow cover, matted grass, and a pinkish hue.
What is Pink Snow Mold
100
Chewing insect that causes damage primarily on putting greens. Will curl into a letter C when disturbed.
What is Cutworm
100
Winter annual, broadleaf weed. Stems are square in cross section and often branch near the base. Flowers are slender, reddish or purplish.
What is Henbit
200
Poa Trivialis
What is Rough Bluegrass
200
This fungal disease requires two hosts, apple and eastern red cedar to complete it's life cycle. Can be controlled with fungicide applications in early spring.
What is Cedar Apple Rust
200
Most common on Tall Fescue, symptoms of this disease appear as irregular tan lesions surrounded by dark brown borders.
What is Brown Patch
200
Typically a coastal chewing insect, can be moved by southern winds into the KC area. These insects feed at night and cause widespread damage within days, destroying entire lawns.
What are Armyworms
200
Triangular stem, grasslike perennial member of the sedge family. V shaped leaf blades.
What is Yellow Nutsedge
300
Lolium Perenne
What is Perennial Ryegrass
300
The classic symptoms of this disease include brownish purple discoloration and eventual death of older needles, while current-year needles show no symptoms. Common on Blue Spruce.
What is Needle Cast
300
Also known as grease spot, this disease is most rapid and severe at air temperatures from 85-95 degrees.
What is Pythium Blight
300
Larvae chew off leaves and stems just above the crown. Multiple generations in one season. Adult moths can be recognized by their jerky zigzag flight patterns over the turfgrass at dusk.
What are Sod Webworms
300
Tall, upright perennial grass reaching 3-10 feet tall in height with an extensive system of rhizomes. Leaves are alternate, 12-30 inches long and 1/2 to 1 inch wide. It has a noticeable white mid-vein. Difficult to control.
What is Johnsongrass
400
Buchloe Dactyloides
What is Buffalograss
400
A devastating disease that can kill affected tree withing a few weeks to months. Caused by pine wood nematode that feeds on tree cells surrounding the resin ducts.
What is Pine Wilt
400
Diagnosis of this disease is most certain in the advanced stages of disease development, when bright thread-like coral pink fungus mycelium are produced at the tips of the affected leaves.
What is Red Thread
400
This sucking insect can cause heavy damage to Zoysia lawns. Adults are 1/6" long, have a gray-black body with fine hairs, white wings, and reddish legs.
What are Chinch Bugs.
400
Creeping broadleaf weed that grows in forests, fields, lawns, roadsides, and streamsides. Each leaflet is 1 to 1.5 inch long and has teeth on its edges. Petioles are hairy. Flowers are 3/4 inch wide with 5 white petals. Fruit is red.
What is wild strawberry
500
Festuca Rubra
What is Creeping Red Fescue
500
A fungal disease that can cause leaf drop, twig dieback, cankers and the sudden death of more than 90% of a tree’s new shoot growth. Effects the Platanus genus of trees.
What is Sycamore Anthracnose
500
Common during hot, drought periods that were preceded by cool, rainy conditions. Leaves infected with this disease often exhibit a bleached tip dieback that extends about a third to halfway down the leaf blade. Primarily a leaf disease and not a root or crown disease, so it rarely causes plant mortality.
What is Ascochyta Leaf Blight
500
The most distinguishing physical feature of this insect is the claw-like forceps located on the end of the abdomen. It's name originated from the widespread superstition that these insects crawl into the ears of sleeping people.
What is the European Earwig.
500
Resembling, and often confused with clover, it is easily identified by its bright yellow flowers and leaf arrangement. Take a close look at the leaflets, you'll notice that the middle leaflet has a short stalk, while the lateral leaflets are attached close to the petiole.
What is Black Medic
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