Mound drench treatment using 1 gallon of water per mound. 1 tablespoon Treat mound and 4-foot diameter surrounding the mound. Do not disturb the mound before or during treatment. These are odd-looking crickets, brown in color, and covered with fine hairs. Their front legs are flat and shovel-like.
Mole crickets make burrows that resemble tiny mole runways in the soil.
They loosen the soil and damage the grass by feeding on the roots. Bees and Wasps Mound-building bees sometimes damage lawns by digging up the soil, making holes, and forming mounds. Wasps sometimes damage lawns during the late summer by digging nests or burrows in the ground. They mound the soil at the entrance to the nests. Control Treat nests with aerosol wasp and hornet killer.