Property owners in Virginia should prioritize preventative grub control treatments to maintain healthy lawns. These treatments help prevent grubs from infesting, which can cause extensive damage to the roots of your grass. It’s crucial to apply them annually rather than waiting for an infestation to occur and seeking curative measures. After all, by being proactive, you can save yourself the time, effort, and cost of dealing with eliminating these pests and helping your turf recover afterward. Rather than going through all that hassle, you’ll want to schedule preventative grub control every year to maintain the health and vitality of your lawn.
Why do you need preventative grub control treatments for your lawn?
Preventative grub control is an essential practice for maintaining a healthy and thriving lawn. Grubs are the larvae of various beetle species, and they can wreak havoc on your grass if left unchecked. These voracious feeders tunnel through the soil and devour the roots of your grass, which weakens the integrity of your lawn and makes it more susceptible to other issues, like drought stress and disease.
By implementing preventative grub control measures, you can proactively safeguard your lawn from these destructive pests. Applying this treatment creates a protective barrier in the soil, effectively targeting and eliminating the young grubs before they can cause significant damage. This preventative approach interrupts the grub life cycle, reducing the population of these pests and keeping them from developing into mature beetles that lay eggs on your lawn.
Grubs can attract other unwanted critters to your lawn that feed on them, such as skunks, raccoons, and birds, so keep an eye out for an increased animal presence.
Why is it important to apply preventative grub control treatments every year?
An annual application of preventative grub control is necessary due to the grub life cycle. Beetles lay eggs in the soil during late spring or early summer, which hatch into grubs that begin feeding on the roots of your grass during the late summer months. By fall, they burrow deeper into the soil to overwinter and resume feeding in early spring. Therefore, applying preventative grub control once a year ensures that you address the newly hatched grubs and disrupt their life cycle.
Furthermore, preventative grub control treatments have a limited residual effect, meaning they provide protection for a specific period of time. Regular application ensures continuous, overlapping protection throughout the active feeding period. By maintaining this annual schedule, you can effectively control the grub population, minimize potential damage, and keep your lawn healthy and resilient.
Can you forgo preventative treatments and just utilize curatives if your lawn develops a grub infestation?
While you can skip preventative grub control and rely on curative measures if a grub infestation occurs, it’s not the most efficient approach. Curative treatments aim to eliminate grub infestations, but your lawn may have already sustained significant damage by that point, leaving it weak, patchy, and vulnerable to other stressors. Then, reversing the damage caused often requires additional lawn care treatments, meaning that this route is significantly more costly than investing in preventative grub control. Because of this, it’s best to take proactive steps to prevent a grub infestation in the first place rather than dealing with all the trouble that comes with one.
Give us a call today to schedule our grub control service.
Protect your lawn from pesky grubs and ensure it stays healthy with our effective grub control service! At Precision Lawn & Landscape, we will apply our highly effective preventative treatment in June/early July to get ahead of these root-feeding pests before they cause problems for your turf. These treatments are included in our lawn care program to also keep your grass strong and resilient to stressors, like grubs.
Since 2006, we’ve been servicing residential and commercial properties and HOAs in Woodbridge, Manassas, Dumfries, and the surrounding areas in Virginia. Don’t let grubs damage your beautiful lawn. Give us a call at (703) 495-2287 to sign up for our grub control service.
