Dear Reader: To be this thorough, the damage almost has to have been caused by chinch bugs. All that’s left looks like Bermuda grass.

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False chinch bugs are less than a quarter of an inch long with narrow, brownish gray bodies. They don’t bite or cause any real damage.

Dear Reader: You’ve left out the source of a majority of St. Augustine problems that I’ve observed across Texas: chinch bugs.

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