How To Get Rid Of Chinch Bugs

How To Get Rid Of Chinch Bugs — jacilluch (Flickr.com)What Are Chinch Bugs?

The term chinch bug can refer to a few different North American insects:

All three species are in the order Hemiptera, making them true bugs.

How To Identify A Chinch Bug

A Chinch bug is about the size of a lady bug when they are full grown.An adult’s body colors varies in color from dark red to brown with white wings and red legs. Young nymphs are usually bright red and are about half the size of the adult. Chinch Bugs have a distinct feature of a white band found on the nymph’s abdomen. Usually the band will be covered with wings and changes the color to black when the nymph reaches adulthood.

How To Get Rid Of Chinch Bugs

 

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Sunniland Corporation Chinch Bug Granule Lawn & Garden Insect/Disease Control
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Controls Chinch Bugs, Sod Webworms, Ants, Mole Crickets & Other Lawn Insects.
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Ortho Bug-B-Gon Lawn and insect killer granules. Kills on contact. Season long insect control.
Kills more than 100 types of insects including ants, fleas, ticks, cutworms, mole crickets, chinch bugs, and many others. Can be used around ornamentals, shrubs, vegetable garden. One application keeps killing lawn bugs for an entire season (3 months).

This article is part of our series on How To Control Lawn Insects. Another section of our site you might enjoy is Backyard Gardens.

 Here are some other website resources

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