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Lawn Insects

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scattered brown spotsChinch bugs [2]

holes in groundCicadas [3]

  hole with a pile of excavated soil
Cicada killer wasps [4]

large green beetleGreen June beetle [5]

white grubGrubs [6]

mining bee in soilMining bees [7] (they are important pollinators)

black and yellow waspScoliid wasp [8] (Predator of lawn grubs)

white mothSod webworm [9]

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[8] https://extension.umd.edu/node/7792
[9] https://extension.umd.edu/node/7793
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