Total Landscape Care Digital Magazine
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chemical care Lights Out for Mole Crickets By Cindy Ratcliff Tried-and-true methods are your best bet for controlling this Coastal Plain pest. M ole crickets continue to be a problem in the areas stretching from North Carolina to East Texas. Recognized in many of those states as the No. 1 insect pest for home lawns, millions are spent each year trying to control them. In Georgia alone, one report estimates statewide expenditures on mole cricket damage and control exceeded $14.8 million in a single year. Despite that, new products for controlling and preventing mole crickets have been slow coming. "The market for this has been really sluggish for the past few years, with the economy where it is," says Juang-Horng (J.C.) Chong, assistant professor of turf and ornamental entomology at Clemson University. "And we really don't see that there is m a r c h 2013 TLC0313_ChemCare3.indd 39 TotalLa nd s ca p e C a re . c o m 39 2/21/13 4:37 PM