I now have about three years of experience with pest control on lawn and shrubs. It is a skill that does take a while to master. I started with my father working lawn care at a very young age.
There are numerous pests that invade our turf, shrubs, and house.
Diseses in turf is one of the hardest things to identify in pest management.
You have to know the difference between dryness in your grass, to herbicide burns, to pests in grass, to disease.
The best way to identify disease on your grass in to actually take a blade of grass and check for disease.
Here is a picture of white fly that is becoming an epidemic in Naples, FL.
Here is a picture of brown spot which is common in the summer on St. Augustine grass when the humidity is high.