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Overwintering Pests in Your Home: What You Should Know
What are overwintering pests? Overwintering pests include several different types of insects that seek shelter inside structures, such as homes or businesses, during the colder months of winter. Once established, these pests can often show up in large numbers, both outside and inside homes. Homeowners may experience an influx of these pests moving towards their home in the fall, and then again in the spring when they emerge from their hiding spots and start working their way back outdoors. As with most insects, effective control is best achieved through ongoing, preventative exterior pesticide applications designed to reduce overwintering p
Winter is Coming: Is Your Home Rodent-Proof?
As temperatures continue to drop this time of year, rodents such as mice and rats start moving indoors more aggressively in search of a warmer environment to ride out the winter. Now is the perfect time to have a good look around your home to make sure there are no indications of an active rodent population, and the house is adequately protected from a potential rodent intrusion. Paying attention to the following four things will help ensure you enjoy a rodent-free environment through the cold weather and beyond: 1) sanitation; 2) habitat modifica
Tired of Spiders Inside Your Home?
For many of us, spiders may be nice Halloween decorations but are often houseguests we would prefer not to have. Spiders tend to be most pervasive in areas where food and shelter are readily available. So, what’s drawing them to your home? For Spider Prevention, Think Outside-In Spider populations inside a home usually begin as an extension of spider populations outside the home. The higher the concentration of spiders outside, the greater the likelihood of finding them indoors. Most spider species feed on other insects, so environment
Fall Core Aeration and Seeding Tips
The season of pumpkin spice lattes and long sleeves is just around the corner. Your lawn has dealt with a hot summer that brought conditions that are often stressful. The good news is that cooler fall weather can create an optimal growing scenario for your lawn—if you follow these best practices for fall core aeration and seeding, that is. Be sure to adhere to Spring Green’s tips to ensure your lawn is poised to thrive during the cold months ahead and all year round. Why aerating and seeding are important The steps of aeration and seeding are annual jobs that make a huge
How to Tell if Your Summer Lawn is Dehydrated (and What to Do About It)
In the heat of the summer, your lawn can suffer from dehydration under the sun’s oppressive glare. Not every brown spot, however, is dehydration. Knowing when your lawn is truly suffering from a lack of hydration and how to address the issue is a challenge for many homeowners, especially during the drier parts of the year when there's excessive sunlight and water restrictions at play. We’ve compiled this mi
How to Identify and Repair Sod Webworm Lawn Damage
Lawn moths are the flying adults of the sod webworm. If you've got a beautiful, thick lawn, you may get singled out to host a population of these lawn killers. The adults can (and do) fly to the lawns of their choice. They actually pick the better lawns in which to lay their eggs. Sod webworms attack many varieties of grass, but are especially deadly on bluegrass lawns. The early warning of a possible sod webworm problem comes when you see small, brownish-gray moths flying in a jerky, zigzag pattern over the lawn in the early evening. These adults don't damage the lawn, but during these evening flights the moths are laying the eggs that soon hatch into the larvae (or worms) that actually feed on the turf. Damage almost never appears in heavily shaded areas. On the other hand, hot and dr
How to Control Squirrels: Squirrel Problems & Prevention Tips
Deer can be a problem more so in rural areas or near forest preserves. Squirrels, on the other hand, can be a "nutty nuisance" in the city, suburbs, or the country and can be a major disturbance in terms of grass and lawn care . They will dig up your bulbs, eat all the birdseed you put out, dig holes in your lawn, chew a hole into your attic, make a mess of your garden, and even harass your dog. They can be very cute when they hold a piece of food in their little paws and delicately nibble at it sitting up in a
Emerald Ash Borer
Definition: An Asian beetle, discovered in the United States in 2002, that has made tree maintenance difficult. Larvae from the insect are born between the bark and sapwood of an ash tree, and as they feed, the tree is unable to properly transport water. Current ash tree care means quarantining infested trees and not transporting firewood that may contain the insect. Emerald Ash Borer - How to Control Tree and Shrub Damaging Insects .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
What Are Some Summer Gardening Tips?
Every year when summer finally arrives it feels like we’ve waited forever for the long sunny days, time off from school, vacations, and gatherings by the pool. Don’t forget about the blooming beauty of our gardens . Summer gardening can seem overwhelming to some newbies who want all the beauty but don’t have the experience. Not to worry, Spring-Green, your neighborhood's top choice of lawn care s
Tips To Fix Your Lawn During A Summer Drought
It’s almost inevitable. Summer arrives with scorching temps and lots of rain. But then the rain doesn’t always stay and drought conditions kick in. Lawn care becomes more complicated in an instant. Drought is more of a problem than ever before and worse in specific areas of the United States than others. Statistics estimate that 53 million people are living in drought-affected areas worldwide. More than 93 percent of the land area in Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and New Mexico is in some level of drought while 69 percent of Utah is in severe drought