In the lawn care industry, a pest is any unwanted organism. For us, we focus on two kinds of pest. The pests trying to get inside your home and the pests in your lawn.

Perimeter Insect Control

Our Perimeter Insect Control program give you the peace of mind that you will not have to deal with insects inside your home throughout the year. Our program provides a barrier around your home that stops bugs before they have an opportunity to find their way inside. We apply an insecticide around the foundation of your home that will work to keep many crawling insects away. Spiders, ants, and stink bugs, will not stand a change against this pest defense program.

We highly encourage 5 applications of the Perimeter Insect Control for year round protection of your home.

Grub Preventative Plus

Over the last 5 years, the Wabash Valley and Midwest have seen an increase in turf destroying insects. While we have focused primarily on white grub control, it is now time to add to our list of threats to our lawns and landscapes. When thinking of a grub preventative program, it is now more important than ever to be sure your insecticide includes control for more than just grubs.

In 2024 we made a drastic change in the insecticide that we used on turf for our grub preventative program. While the chemistry for imidacloprid (Merit) has its place in the lawn care industry, it was time to make a change. For many years, Merit was a great product to use for a grub preventative program, however, with the increase in other turf destroying insects, a change was needed in our program to ensure we provided the right protection for lawns. Merit works well against grubs but does not work against caterpillars. We needed to switch to a product that provided control for a wider range of insects. We also found that merit has a small window of application and provided only preventative control with no curative control if an early emergence of grubs appeared. This limited our ability to keep up with the ever changing environment we have seen over the last 5 years.

Moving forward, our grub preventative program will now control more than just white grubs. The product we have are using will not only control white grubs but also armyworms, annual bluegrass weevil, billbugs, European crane fly, spittlebugs, cutworms, sod webworms, and provide suppression for chinch bugs. This product can be applied from early spring to as late as September for both a preventative and curative solution to turf destroying insects.