Late summer is when Augusta yards get quietly eaten. Fall armyworms cross a Bermuda lawn overnight, fire ants throw up mounds after rain, and the shrubs along a shaded foundation collect their own troubles leaf by leaf. This work happens up close — turning a leaf over, reading a thin patch of turf, treating lawn and azaleas and camellias for what is actually there. Pest control on shrubs and grass alike is less about spraying than about looking first and knowing what you found. A yard that comes through August unchewed, still full and still green, has been paid attention to.