Garden Pests hornworms, armyworms & co.
When leaves vanish overnight, the eater is usually still there — hornworms the size of your finger, armyworm outbreaks after summer rain, or beetles working the canopy while you sleep. Garden damage is a lawn-and-landscape problem, and it responds fast to targeted treatment.
Signs you have them
- Leaves stripped to stems overnight
- Ragged chew holes across vegetable beds
- Green droppings on leaves below the damage
- Brown patches spreading across the lawn in late summer (armyworms)
What you can do today, free
- Hand-pick hornworms at dusk with a flashlight — they glow under UV
- Leave a hornworm wearing white cocoons alone: those are parasitic wasps finishing the job for free
- Water lawns in the morning, not evening, to slow fungal + pest pressure
Questions, answered straight
Is this covered by pest control or lawn care?
Our Lawn Bug Plan ($99/visit) covers insects eating your lawn and beds. We don’t do mowing, weeds, or fertilizer — just the bugs.
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