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sod webworms

steveconwayukXUXsXhj5steveconwayukXUXsXhj5 Posts: 10
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I had a beautiful lawn but it is now decimated by sod webworms all over it.

I want a good insecticide to get on top of it but nothing is available in UK.

Where can I get some?

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  • steveconwayukXUXsXhj5steveconwayukXUXsXhj5 Posts: 10
    Hi Pansyface. I would love to leave it and just let it recover but the damage is extremely extensive and seems to be spreading. I will have no lawn soon! Your suggestion that I feed the lawn and let it get its strength up sounds good but I have been doing this for the past 5 years to get to a healthy sward and it was looking pretty good with strong growth. Unfortunately, this has not stopped these sod**** web worms in fact they seem to have thrived on it.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    This site suggests nematodes can help and they would be specific to your moths - https://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/sod-webworms-lawns   Seems to be a US site so no idea where you'd get nematodes but maybe google will find some.

    Another site suggest raking off all thatch in the grass, feeding it and never cutting shorter than 2.5cms/1".   It also seems that rye and fescue grasses are more resistant so if you do have to re-sow, choose a seed mix containing those.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Not to mention all those good guys also pollinating our own food plants.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • steveconwayukXUXsXhj5steveconwayukXUXsXhj5 Posts: 10

    We all know this so a helpful comment would be more use, please.

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    The above are are useful comments. Why do you think your problem is sod-webworms? I can find barely evidence of them at all in the UK.

  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    https://www.planetnatural.com/pest-problem-solver/lawn-pests/sod-webworm-control/

    A whole list of options, almost all without having to spray nasty chemicals..
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    In the words of the great Del Boy, ‘ There’s none so blind as them wot won’t listen’ 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    http://www.neudorff.co.uk/fileadmin/medien/neudorff.co.uk/advices/LeatherjacketFree_instruction_leaflet.pdf
    A link for nematodes available in the UK.
  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    pansyface said:
    A good offer, josine in The Netherlands. But the site quotes in dollars so, unless Brexit took place overnight and we have now joined our friends over the Atlantic in our “special relationship” (aka they screw us), the treatment is an American treatment for what would seem to be an American problem.

    By the way, do you have sod web worms in the Netherlands? If so, what do you do with them?
    Haha sorry for that. I’m a sucker for googling for other people. Untill just now I never heard of the soddy worms. But I would never spray them with chemicals. 

  • Paul B3Paul B3 Posts: 3,154
    As far as I'm concerned , my 'lawn' is just something green to walk on to enable access to more interesting parts of the garden !
    Wouldn't even consider spraying it with anything and agree totally with the above comments re:- wildlife .
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