Firelands Lawn & Landscape

06/01/2026

Everything you want to know about fall webworms in trees. Click below.

First-generation fall webworms are showing up in southwest Ohio. Will there be a tsunami of webworms this season, or just a ripple?

05/29/2026

Red thread is pretty active on lawns. It is a minor disease that clears up once soil moisture decreases. It gets its name because the grass tips appear to be 'red threads'.

Additional fertilization can help the grass recover from the disease. Red Thread occurs over a relatively wide range of cool temperatures (40-70 degrees). Long evening dew, as we have been having, is ideal for Red Thread to be active.

05/26/2026

We see a lot of this in our area, farmers most likely know....

Cressleaf Groundsel, commonly referred to as Butterw**d, may look beautiful. But it is a w**d and can be toxic to livestock if it is present in hay.

05/21/2026

Everything you need to know about mulching trees, and more!

The spring malpractice of piling mulch high on tree stems to approximate the look of a volcano is well underway. These horticultural horrors are destroyers of tree root systems and harbingers of a slow tree death.

05/17/2026

Bagworm happening, if your pines start to brown, it doesn't take long for bagworms to destroy it. If we haven't protected your trees, it's not too late.

Be alert to bagworms! Overwintered bagworm eggs have hatched in southwest Ohio, which is almost a month earlier than last year.

05/17/2026

Insects are active to the south of us. We are typically two weeks behind our southern counties.

This is whats active to our south.

Two types of sawfly larvae are consuming the foliage of shade trees in southwest Ohio. Click the hotlink to learn more.

05/05/2026

Time to check your rose bushes. Check the link below:

Sawfly larvae are producing “bleached” leaves on landscape roses in southwest Ohio.

04/30/2026

Everything you want to know about the Crane Fly.

Spring emerging crane flies are flittering over lawns during the day and crashing into porch lights at night in Ohio. Native crane flies can benefit turfgrass. Non-natives can cause significant damage.

04/25/2026

We can protect boxwoods from insects that can damage them.

Boxwood leafminer adults are emerging in central Ohio. Don’t overlook this old boxwood nemesis.

04/25/2026

Boxwood insect that may be active.

Boxwood leafminer adults are emerging in central Ohio. Don’t overlook this old boxwood nemesis.