strange lawn pest

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strange lawn pest Micro* 08-08-2006
Posted by Micro* on August 8, 2006, 12:37 am
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Hi all,
This one has everybody stumped.
Some history, I used to have a hybrid bermuda lawn, till Trugreen killed
it(another story).
After most of the bermuda died and only small clumps would come back, there
appeared small mounds of fine castings, like tiny ant hills 1/4 to 3/8 "
dia. these were very fine round pellets. They became so thick they buried
what bermuda was left.....End of bermuda, so I dug up the rest of the
bermuda, flooded the area with Seven(recommended by nursery) and tilled,
added compost, tilled it in, leveled, rolled and ordered Marathon 3 sod,
before laying the sod I put down a layer of Bayer granules(again
recommended) and laid the sod.
So far so good. Two months later the sod is dieing out in large areas, look
at the problem and sure enough the sod is getting buried again, chocking the
crowns of the grass. OK called the county ag dept, their answer"I Donno", so
much for taxpayers money...
Any guesses?????


--
"shut up and keep diggen"
Jerry



Posted by The_Critic on August 8, 2006, 6:08 am
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> Hi all,
> This one has everybody stumped.
> Some history, I used to have a hybrid bermuda lawn, till Trugreen killed
> it(another story).
> After most of the bermuda died and only small clumps would come back,
> there appeared small mounds of fine castings, like tiny ant hills 1/4 to
> 3/8 " dia. these were very fine round pellets. They became so thick they
> buried what bermuda was left.....End of bermuda, so I dug up the rest of
> the bermuda, flooded the area with Seven(recommended by nursery) and
> tilled, added compost, tilled it in, leveled, rolled and ordered Marathon
> 3 sod, before laying the sod I put down a layer of Bayer granules(again
> recommended) and laid the sod.
> So far so good. Two months later the sod is dieing out in large areas,
> look at the problem and sure enough the sod is getting buried again,
> chocking the crowns of the grass. OK called the county ag dept, their
> answer"I Donno", so much for taxpayers money...
> Any guesses?????
>
>
> --
> "shut up and keep diggen"
> Jerry
>
Have you examined this possibility?

http://www.molecrickets.com/



Posted by Micro* on August 8, 2006, 12:10 pm
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>
>
> Have you examined this possibility?
>
> http://www.molecrickets.com/
>
In the process of renovating the lawn, I looked VERY closely for any
insects, couldn't see anything other than the normal things you would expect
to see. By the way,if it makes a difference, I live in So.Cal., SanDiego.
I'm thinking, since the ag. dept. didn't know, maybe it's some imported
bug??
Lawn services are NOT a good thing, they spread things from one lawn to
another..DAMHIKT....


--
"shut up and keep diggen"
Jerry



Posted by Steveo on August 8, 2006, 12:08 pm
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>> Lawn services are NOT a good thing, they spread things from one lawn to
> another..DAMHIKT....
>
Haha! What did they spread to your lawn?

Posted by Jose on August 8, 2006, 12:25 pm
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Steveo wrote:
>
>>>Lawn services are NOT a good thing, they spread things from one lawn to
>>
>>another..DAMHIKT....
>>
>
> Haha! What did they spread to your lawn?

you think that's funny? if you kill a lawn it's just more work for u,
huh. whatta guy.

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