Insect Control
EcoGuard perimeter insect control
for your home





Do you hate finding earwigs, spiders, sugar ants, centipedes, boxelder bugs and other insects inside your home? Our EcoGuard Insect Control Program prevents crawling insects from entering your residence. We carefully apply an effective barrier, four times a year, to your house’s exterior. Since it is applied to the exterior, customers do not have to be present for us to complete the service. A convenient and effective way to keep insects from coming into your home.





Lawn Insect Control
We provide insect control for lawn insect infestations from grubs, lawn mites, chinch bugs, billbugs, sod webworms, cutworms and other harmful insects. We check for insect damage as part of our customer service for our lawn fertilization programs. We understand the life cycle of the insects and when is the proper time to apply to achieve control.
*Please note - we are not currently offering one-time services. This service is offered to Lawn Fertilization Package customers.
Posts About Bugs
Make Your Landscape Less Appealing to Japanese Beetles
Here at EcoTurf we do not treat or deal with adult Japanese Beetles, we treat them at the grub stage, and also know it is important to talk about the entire insect and some creative ways to make your landscape less appealing to these little buggers. By having an...
Misunderstood Milkweed – A Critical Plant for Monarchs
Milkweed is the only food source for monarch caterpillars. Often considered a "weed" it does have beautiful scented flowers that bees adore too! We planted some in our butterfly/pollinator garden area and have enjoyed it. Monarchs are now on the endangered species...
Surprising Beneficial Insects In Landscapes
Praying Mantis are used as natural predators for damaging insects in gardens and landscapes. https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef418 Lacewing - the under appreciated beneficial insect, who eats aphids. https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef148 Dragonflies eat mosquitoes,...
Why Are There Moths All Over My Lawn?
Crambus moths are the adults of sod webworms and where there are adult moths there are sod webworms feeding on leaves and stems in turf grass.
How To Make Landscapes Pollinator Friendly
What do we have in our yard that makes it pollinator friendly? A variety of flowering plants that bloom from spring to late fall. Bulbs in the spring such as daffodils and tulips, violas, pansies, early spring ground covers and a lilac bush, for example. Bees and other pollinators love our butterfly bushes, roses, huge variety of coreopsis flowers, zinnias, poppies, dianthus, hollyhocks, cosmos, and too many to mention. In fall, mums, Russian sage and sedum and other frost resistant flowers continue to provide color and food sources.
Lawn Mite Identification and Prevention in Lawns
Lawn Mites cause serious problems when they reach infestation stages. Because of Colorado’s dry winters, lawn mites thrive in warm, dry conditions, and cause damage while grass is dormant. Damage won’t be evident until irrigation is turned on and sections of lawn do not green up.
Lawn Damaging Insects – Grubs
Grub activity is increasing along the Front Range. We are seeing established infestations in Greeley, Johnstown, Windsor and Fort Collins. Grubs cause damage from late spring through the end of the growing season depending on which type they are. Grubs eat the roots...
Homemade Mosquito Spray That Works!!
Here in Northern Colorado, we are having a Mosquito Plague because of all the rain this spring. I don't know about you, but our family hasn't been enjoying the outdoors as much because of the pesky skeeters. So I bought ingredients for making some homemade mosquito...