A mild winter followed by a warm, moist spring has led to abundance of disease and insect problems. I’ve gotten a lot of calls recently about worm activity in the lawn and garden. Caterpillars ...

This year, many residents of Northern Utah have had cutworms cause severe damage to their lawns. Sod webworms are another above ground turf pest that damages turf. Because so many listeners have ...

Pests: If the lawn is very patchy and bare and the grass doesn’t seem to grow thickly anywhere, this could indicate that a pest lives in the soil, such as cutworms (moth larvae) or ...

Meers said cutworms are mobile once they’re in their adult stage, meaning they don’t always attach themselves to the same field. Advertisement 3 Story continues below ...