Leatherjackets and Magpies

Same problem here, im hoping they like out the moss!

Oik out!

Dd used nematodes to kill the larvae off. Then you may need to re sow the grass in places but this is the right time of year.

whats a leather jacket?in the animal world.

Larvae of the crane fly (daddy long legs) polnan.

Thanks Georgesgran, I've never know that.

Neither have i.Not a gardener😬Why not just say that then,why call it 'leather jacket? How odd.😆

But funny😆

Leather jacket is the correct term for the larvae of crane flies.
Crane flies aka Daddy Longlegs.

The larvae can destroy a lawn. The more the birds eat the better.

I had the same problem a few years ago but with a badger digging the back lawn up up overnight, the lawn looked like a bomb site in the morning when we got up , big clumps of grass dug up everywhere, and then he burrowed under the fence and had a go at my neighbour's and several others on his way up the lane.
He came in from the fields at the back we think

What about a novel thought - don't worry about your lawn. The magpies are hungry, as are all other living things. Why kill the larvae when living beings will go hungry? I have never understood the obsession with lawns - madness!

meddijess

What about a novel thought - don't worry about your lawn. The magpies are hungry, as are all other living things. Why kill the larvae when living beings will go hungry? I have never understood the obsession with lawns - madness!

Well said meddijess

I leave mine for the starlings and their babies in the spring.
Also, I love that period in autumn when they fly into the house clumsily banging into things and waking up the cat.

This is so funny, people pay thousands to maintain their lawn to perfection, others let the birds have their meals from it. Each to their own 🤣

meddijess I think it depends if you have a lawn or grass I have the latter I like to think of the weeds as wild flowers and certainly it fared much better in the dry weather than a pristine lawn would have done Don’t water either

Called leather jackets because they have a leathery skin
Don’t worry about magpies and crows you won’t believe what badgers will do