Storing lawn pesticides and weed killers

Storing Lawn and Garden Chemicals

Household, lawn and garden chemicals can cause a high risk of injury to children pets and adults, and it's for these reasons that if we are going to buy and use lawn and garden chemicals - then it is our responsibility to ensure they are kept safely and in good condition at all times.

How To Kill Sod Webworm

Sod webworm is small caterpillar of the Crambus moth species, of which there are hundreds of known varieties, they can cause massive amounts of damage when they form in large numbers and each female can lay up to 200 eggs. Sod webworms are usually uncommon in Australia due to the fact that most of the grasses we grow for home lawns are Warm Season Grasses, and these caterpillars overwhelmingly prefer Cool Season Grasses.

Despite this, sod webworms can and do invade Australian lawns, and their damage can be most noticeable in healthy green lawns when small brown or straw coloured patches begin appearing which are between 1 - 15 centimetres in diameter. Damage from infestation can be more difficult to see when the lawn is subject to drought, as the damage is often the same colour as dying lawn, or grass which is becoming brown due to lack of water.