The larva is fairly easy to kill with insecticide. The adults are pretty tough, and probably well adapted to anything off the shelf by now. They (adult insects) are pretty well impervious to the standard insecticides used to control insects by the pros as well.
If you were using a lawn treatment company, (and they were actually using chemicals in what they were spraying on your lawn), and all your neighbors are treating regularly as well, you can kind of keep them under control, BUT once you get a good infestation,
the chemicals that kill the adults is not available with out a pesticides license. You will see pictures on bags and the mole cricket listed on lots of over the counter products, but what they DON'T TELL YOU....is that amount of chemical concentration needed to do the job is not feasible , and/or the mole crickets in this area have been drinking it like beer since the early 90s when all the mole crickets and cinch bugs became impervious to the chemical.
I have driven 2x4s in the ground at night and began sawing the top with a skill saw and watched all the adults come out of the ground and leave my yard. Follow this with a good treatment or 3 to kill the larvae and you might get your population down to a minimum.
One of the great attributes of St. Augustine over Zoysia, is that it can recover a LOT faster from fungus, cinch bug and mole cricket damage... I know, I know, back home it was crab grass
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