How to Control
- Avoid the problem by planting endophyte-containing grass cultivars.
- In small lawns soak sod with soapy water (1 ounce of liquid dish soap to 2 gallons of water) then lay a flannel sheet over the grass to snare bugs as they are driven out by the solution.
- Kill the bugs by washing them off the sheet in a bucket of soapy water.
- Encourage native predators: bigeyed bugs, minute pirate bugs, lacewigs, lady bugs/beetles, and birds (put up some bird feeders).