Both the nymphs and adults of these true bugs suck juices from grass, causing dwarfing, yellowing and eventually death. Adults are black with shiny white wings.
Chinch bugs have more than one generation per year and overwinter as adults.
They tend to group in one area and cause localized injury particularly to St. Augustine grass. Homoptera Greenbug Greenbugs are light green aphids with a dark green stripe down their backs. They are destructive pests of crops such as wheat, and attack turf grass as well. There are a number of parasites and predators which attack aphids, including ladybeetles. Until recently this insect was called the Rhodesgrass scale, because the adults are purplish brown, round sacs covered with a white, cottony material that look more like scales than mealybugs.