September 24,2026
Care of Turfgrass
Turfgrass Disorders - Pest and Non-Pest, Requirements for Healthy Turf,
Soil Texture, Nutrients, Establashing Turf and Maintianing It
Weed Identification and Control
Identification of Broadleaf and Grassy Weeds, Broadleaf Weeds Versus Grassy Weeds,
Life Cycles, Annual Bluegrass, Black Medic, Broadleaf Plaintain, Chickweed, Dandelion,
Field Bindweed, Ground Ivy, Smooth Crabgrass, Large Crabgrass, Poison Ivy, Yellow Foxtail,
Nutsedges, Silver Crabgrass, Nimblewill, Creeping Bentgrass, Orchardgrass, Quackgrass,
Tall Fescue
Turfgrass Diseases
Diagnosis, Control
Anthracnose, Foliar Blight, Brown Patch, Damping-off Diseases, Dollar Spot, Fairy Ring, Gray Snow Mold, Leaf Spot and Melting-Out Diseases, Necrotic Ring Spot, Pink Snow Mold, Fusarium Patch, Powdery Mildew, Pythium Blight, Red Thread and Pink Patch, Rust, Slime Molds, Summer Patch, Take-All Patch, Yellow Patch
Turfgrass Pest
Identification, Damage, Control
Root Feedres - May/June Beetles, Northern Masked Chafers, Black Turfgrass Ataenius, Green June Beetles, Japanese Beetles, False Japanese Beetles, Oriental Beetles, Bluegrass Billbugs
Blade Defoliators - Sod Webworm, Cutworms, Armyworms, Fall Armyworms
Blade Sucking - Leafhoppers, Aphids
No Damaging Lawn Pests - Chinch Bugs, False Chinch Bugs, Earthworms
Jumping Worms
Ticks
Identification, Lifecycle, Management
East Asian, Blacklegged, American Dog Ticks,
Associated Diseases - Lyme, Human Babesiosis, Lyme Borreliosis,
Prevention, Management
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September 25, 2026
Ornamental Insect Pest
Identification, Damage Control
Aphids, Asian Longhorned Beetles, Bees and Wasps, Birch Leafminer, Bronze Birch Borers, Black Vine Weevil, Eastern Tent Caterpillars, Forest Tent Caterpillars, Pine Sawflies, Introduced Pine Sawflies, Redheaded Pine Sawflies, White Pine Weevil, Emerald Ash Borers
Scale Insects - Oystershell Scale, Pine Needle Scale, Red Pine Scale, Euonymus Scale,
Oak Lecanium, Fletcher Scale, Pine Tortoise Scale, Cottony Maple Scale,
Cottony Maple Leaf Scale, Oak Kermes, Elongate Hemlock Scale Hemlock Scale
Spider Mites - Twospotted Spider Mites, Spruce Spider Mites,
Cooley Spruce Adelgids Eastern Spruce Gall Adelgids
Invasive Landscape Pests
Identification, Life Cycle, Control
Spotted Lanternfly, Box Tree Moth, Elm Zigzag Sawfly,
Beech Leaf Disease, Asian Needle Ants, Laurel Wilt
Ornamental Pest Diseases
Identification, Lifecycle, Control
Apple Scab, Gymnosporangium Rust ,Cedar Rust Diseases, Powdery Mildews,
Sooty Molds, Anthracnose Diseases, Tar Spot, Vascular Wilts, Dutch Elm Disease,
Bacterial Leaf Scorch, Ash Yellows, Root Rot of Rhododendron, Boxwood Blight
Environmental Factors Favoring Disease
