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Lawn devastation

PoppiesforeverPoppiesforever Posts: 3
in Problem solving
Our beautiful lawn has this week has been devastated by something and am hoping you can help determine the troublemaker. We do have a hedgehog that visits the garden and has done for a long time and this issue is only this week. We thought the devastation was happening overnight but after being away for the day I got home to find this devastation  which would indicate that the hedgehog is not the culprit although there is,I assume, hedgehog poo on the lawn. I have seen a few birds in the “dodgy” area so is this birds? 

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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    They are very neat. I thought maybe mining bees , but possibly too late in the year for them.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Probably birds looking for leather jackets or chafer grubs. Not devastation, it's free pest control and aeration, along with some  thatch removal! :)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yes I agree ... birds getting leather jackets and/or chafer grubs etc. 

    Scarifying to remove thatch  and moss will improve the lawn and make it less likely to attract the adult insects to lay their eggs there next year, and the use of specific nematodes for each larvae will also be helpful next August/September. 

    Info and advice here 



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Ditto - crows/magpies /starlings after leatherjackets. That time of year  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • PoppiesforeverPoppiesforever Posts: 3
    Thank you, lawn was scarified at the weekend with our electric scarifier and this all since. Never had this before so thank you for diagnosis.....will follow the link and read up on this.

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I was going to say the same - free aerification of the lawn.
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    Fire said:
    I was going to say the same - free aerification of the lawn.
    ...and pest control!
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
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