Maybe your first sighting of a sod webworm invasion is moths flitting about through your landscape. What are they doing and are they affecting the grass, shrubs or even your cloths? These brown dingy moths could give the cat something to chase and may set a few new residents in a bit of a tizzy but for most gardeners they are a well-known start of the summer lawn pest season. By the way, they do not affect shrubs or clothing.

Actually the arrival of sod webworm moths appears early this year. They are more likely Fourth of July arrivals but they are already here. You might blame it on the warm winter. Maybe they did not die back to South Florida as they normally do or maybe they just over wintered here.

First signs of these insects are the moth stages that move about in the yard in the late afternoon. They can be numerous and are about impossible to catch without a butterfly net. They flit about laying eggs that could produce the grass feeding larvae we call webworms. I say they could, because many eggs and young larvae are consumed by natural controls of bugs and spiders living in your lawn. So, you may never see the webworms or their damage.

Only when you notice the grass starting to disappear might you become a bit concerned sod webworms are at work. Now here is some good news. They like to feed in crabgrass the most. Just think they might only eat the crabgrass and leave the St. Augustine alone. Well that is wishful thinking.

If you do have sod webworms feeding, dont get too nervous. The voracious larvae seldom kill an otherwise healthy lawn. Still, most gardeners do not like to see their grass chewed down to nubbins. If you have sod webworms feeding, some natural controls are available as Dipel or spinosad containing insecticides found at local garden centers. Where needed many other good insecticides are ready to use too. Just follow the label for the product you choose. One treatment should be all you need.

Sod webworms are easy to control. There is no reason to let them mow down your lawn.

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hide captionAbout 40 miles east of Los Angeles, houses in the new College Park subdivision are designed to have good feng shui.

About 40 miles east of Los Angeles, houses in the new College Park subdivision are designed to have good feng shui.

If you leave Los Angeles, Calif., on Interstate 10 and head east for about 40 miles, you'll run into a quintessentially suburban phenomenon: the opening of a subdivision.

hide captionIn a house with good feng shui, the staircase leads away from the front door so the energy doesn't rush out before it can do good for the house.

At one such development called College Park in Chino, Calif., the lawns are bright green, the D.J. is spinning classic rock and a lot of the conversations are in Mandarin. Among those looking for a house is Eddie Yung. He lives in China now, but he's moving to California.

The number of Chinese buying homes in the U.S. has more than doubled since 2007, with most of those sales in Southern California. Some are buying for investment purposes prices are positively cheap compared to the market in Beijing or Shanghai and others are planning to start a life in the states.

Marketing to those Chinese buyers has meant learning about what customers want in a house's design, says Mark Torres, a division president for Lennar Homes, the company that's building the subdivision.

"We consider feng shui elements in all our designs," Torres says. "Everything from the water-fire elements and making sure that we don't have those types of conflicts [and] designing the entry of the homes to keep all that positive energy in the home."

Just a few miles from College Park is the town of Chino Hills, which Lisa Dutton calls home. But her house has feng shui problems. It's had issues since she bought it from a Chinese seller 15 years ago.

"As he was moving out, he told us the reason he was moving was the house didn't have good chi," Dutton says. "We had no idea what chi was! Had no idea whatsoever. So, we bought the house."

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The rock fences that line Paris Pike are rife with historical significance. Some of the rock fences date to the 19th century, when Irish immigrants found work building the enclosures for plantation owners in the Bluegrass region who wanted to emulate the beauty of English country estates.

The state went to a lot of effort to preserve, move and protect the fences as part of a nearly $7.5 million-per-mile Paris Pike renovation that was designed to blend into, rather than consume, the landscape. At $93 million, the Paris Pike makeover was one of the most expensive road projects of its time and kind when it opened in 2003.

Eleven years later, significant chunks of the fences have crumbled, and there isn't money set aside for repairs.

Henry Alexander said he has noticed increasing portions of the historic rock wall fences deteriorating in recent months.

"It's kind of bad in spots," said Alexander, retired general manager of Sterling Stud Farm in Lexington and past chairman of the Paris Pike Corridor Commission. "I don't know whether somebody hit them or if it's the weather. Some of the old fences in the median in the middle are getting in rough shape."

The freeze-thaw cycle of winter and automobile impacts are likely culprits, said Natasha Lacy, public information officer for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. The state is responsible for repairing the fences in the median of the 12.5-mile route between Paris and Lexington.

Those median rock fences previously were on the road frontage of farms on either side of the road. If the fences couldn't be avoided during the renovation, they were dismantled and reconstructed, said Phil Logsdon, assistant director of Environmental Analysis for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and former environmental coordinator for the Paris Pike project. About 2 miles of fences were rebuilt, he said.

Most of the rock fences affected during the widening were in Fayette County near Elmendorf and Normandy farms, Logsdon said.

Alexander said Millennium Farm and other property on the western side of the project also were affected.

Horse farm owners are much quicker at performing needed repairs to their rock fences, which line either side of Paris Pike, Alexander said.

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GAMES bosses have confirmed that controversial security fences in Glagsow's East End will stay up until at least August.

And there will be no financial compensation for residents in Dalmarnock who say they have put up with "five years of hell."

The Evening Times can also reveal similar fences have been erected at Hampden Park and Celtic Park, and will be installed at other venues including the lawn bowls centre at Kelvingrove and Cathkin Braes mountain biking track.

Paul Main, Chief Superintendent in charge of community engagement for the Games, said the need for the fencing will become clearer as the event start date nears, when it will become a "transport mall" for athletes and deliveries.

Mr Main said: "I think when people start visiting this venue, as well as others including for the lawn bowls, badminton and squash, they will see the same thing.

"There is no difference to the fence in Springfield Road and the fences at any other venues - Cathkin Braes, the Royal Commonwealth pool in Edinburgh, for example.

"The difference is that it's up so early because it's one of the first venues to become live. It's also in such close proximity to well-established residential communities.

"As the Games progress it could be they realise it's not just them, it will be happening across the city."

Speaking to the Evening Times, Paul Zealey, head of legacy and engagement on the Commonwealth Games organising committee, said he recognises there have been "isolated cases" where residents were not given adequate communication.

Mr Zealey said letters were issued to members of the community informing them of the work due to take place and what the impact would be for them.

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Graywater, gates and fences, the preliminary budget and animal control will be the topics of the Paradise Town Council's regular June meeting on Tuesday at 6 p.m.

A public hearing will be held regarding the use of graywater systems, so residents can use washing machine water for irrigating their landscaping, Town Manager Lauren Gill said.

"In light of the drought situation and in light of our water savings effort with PID, we are looking at our grey water ordinance so we can make it easier for citizens to install grey water systems," Gill said, adding that the grey water systems will save water and money.

The council will also hold a public hearing to consider a zoning code amendment relating to the installation of gates and fences on private easements. The proposed amendment would regulate gates, fences and other barriers the same in regard to the zoning code, and would require all neighboring parties to be in agreement with the installation of a gate across a private easement.

The planning commission considered the amendment at its last meeting, but did not make a recommendation to the council as to whether they should adopt the amendments. Three of the four commissioners said they wanted a separate definition in the code for gates and fences.

Commissioner Stephanie Neumann made a motion to recommend the council adopt the amendments, saying that a closed gate and a fence are both barriers and should be considered the same in regard to the zoning code. The motion died without a second.

The council will also consider the preliminary budget at the meeting, as well as placing a general use sales tax increase on the November ballot. The sales tax increase will be a half-cent increase for six years.

Gill said the council has received budget updates at every meeting during the last year, so the council already is aware of the financial situation.

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DAGUPAN CITY Two armed men shot and killed Urbiztondo town Mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr., his police escort and an electrician on Saturday near an area in the town where the mayor was supposed to hold his 25th wedding anniversary party today, Sunday.

Balolong was at the back of the towns convention center around 8:50 a.m. when armed men in a Toyota Innova drove up and opened fire, police said.

The mayor was inspecting the venue for his wedding anniversary and for the wedding of his son, Urbiztondo Councilor Voltaire Balolong, which were to take place simultaneously.

The gunmen alighted from the Innova and had calmly approached the mayor before they opened fire, according to a witness.

The witness said Balolong managed to scamper away but was felled by another shot. One of the gunmen approached Balolong and shot him at point-blank range, the witness said.

Targets

Police said Balolong and his escort, Police Officer 1 Eliseo Ulanday (not Umanday as earlier reported), were the apparent targets of the attack. Edmund Meneses, a supermarket electrician, was caught in the barrage of the bullets.

The attack also wounded Jose Vigilia, an employee of CSI Supermarket, and Rogelio Esguerra, a soy drink vendor.

Balolong was immediately taken to Elguira General Hospital in San Carlos City. But Dr. Samuel Elguira, owner of the hospital, said the mayor was already dead when he arrived in the hospital about an hour later, 9:55 a.m.

He had 27 gunshot wounds in his chest, his back and his arms, Elguira said.

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