Lawn Pest & Disease Treatment

Coastal Georgia's humid summers and warm-season grasses create ideal conditions for the worst lawn pests in the Southeast. Armyworms can wipe out half a lawn in 48 hours during late-summer outbreaks. Chinch bugs target stressed St. Augustine in dry heat. Mole crickets tunnel under Bermuda root zones, killing patches that look like the lawn just gave up. A&P Lawn Care & More treats every one of these — but more importantly, we catch them early.

Disease pressure is just as ruthless. Brown patch (Rhizoctonia) hits Bermuda, Centipede, and St. Augustine in humid stretches, showing up as circular brown patches with smoke-ring borders. Large patch attacks Zoysia in cool wet weather. Dollar spot peppers small silver-dollar-sized lesions across the canopy. Each one needs a different fungicide and a different cultural correction — irrigation timing, mowing height, nitrogen rate. We treat the symptom and adjust the conditions that let it spread.

Every weekly mowing visit and program touch includes a pest and disease scout. We look for damage patterns, fresh frass, fungus rings, blade lesions, and color shifts. Catching armyworms in week one is a $50 spot-treatment. Missing them until week three is a sod replacement. We'd rather find it small and treat it small.