If you having more feathered visitors than normal and they’re all busy scratching and pecking at the lawn, there’s a good chance they’re after eating the grubs. When you tug on the blades, the plant will come away from the soil all too easily and there will be barely any root on the bottom of the plant.īirds are another clue. Your grass plants will be unable to re-grow their roots fast enough and so the plants will perish. However, they are tiny, so the amount they eat is easily replaced by a healthy grass plant.įrom late April through to Early June though, the beasts start to grow fast. They remain underground, quietly chewing on the roots of your lawn. What are the signs that you have leatherjackets in your lawn?īetween August and April you will probably have no idea that there are leatherjackets in your lawn. Which is why they’re not particularly welcomed by lawn lovers. Leatherjackets feast on the roots of grass plants.
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And boy do they eat a lot! If you’ve ever had your cabbage patch raided by caterpillars you’ll know how much they can put away in a day. Caterpillars are fussy eaters, and depending on the species will stick to eating the leaves of one type of plant. And the job of the lavae is to eat, eat and eat some more before metamorphosing into an adult who will mate, lay eggs and continue the cycle of life. Butterflies are caterpillars, and crane flies are leatherjackets. Bluebottles are maggots before they’re flies.
All insects change shape and feeding habits during their lifetime. What is a leatherjacket?Ī leatherjacket is the laval stage of the crane fly or daddy long-legs. And the lifecycle of the leatherjacket starts in summer. The damage that Leatherjackets do to a lawn is most obvious in late winter or early spring, so why am I writing about them in August? Well, like so many things in nature, in order to control them we need to understand them. In this blog we learn more about these creatures and how best to control them. You’d be surprised at how much havoc something as small as leatherjackets can create.
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