Early brush gets the worm

We use a carpet dragmat on our greens three times a week prior to mowing. Initially, we were simply trying to knock down the dew and nutrients, plus stand up our tifdwarf for an improved cut. We brush five consecutive days after our biweekly vertical mowing during our active growing season, and this is when we stumbled on an awesome integrated pest management tool. We found that we were absolutely destroying cutworms and armyworms by brushing them while they were up feeding in the dark. This has also helped our budget, because now we mechanically control the worms enough to reach an acceptable threshold without using insecticides.

Now if we could just find something for these mole crickets...