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Leatherjackets and Badgers

Posted by Michael Bates on December 8, 2011 at 7:41pm in Turfcare

Hi guys, I had a phone call from one of my customers today saying that he has had trouble with badgers lifting the turf on his lawn. I'm going to have a look at the lawn tomorrow but my first thought is that there after leatherjackets?, however, i'm slightly confused as to the timings of this. I no it has been exceptionally mild here in sw Cornwall but I thought that problems related to Leatherjackets were most common from August to October?.

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  • Sean Busby December 8, 2011 at 8:13pm

    Sorry about this Michael, can't resist it.... I know it's getting colder now but I'd be most surprised if badgers are thinking about donning leather jackets. It conjures up an amusing image though!

  • Michael Bates December 8, 2011 at 8:31pm

    Hahaha, this is Cornwall!!!, now I read back over my post, your right, set that one up perfectly didn't I!!!!

  • Sean Busby December 8, 2011 at 10:10pm

    Mind you, saw a fox in a Harrington yesterday.

    Michael Bates said:

    Hahaha, this is Cornwall!!!, now I read back over my post, your right, set that one up perfectly didn't I!!!!

  • duncan ross December 9, 2011 at 8:41am

    If its new turf, I would bet that its foxes & not badgers. Had this happen many times on new lawns, they are after the worms & i am convinced they love being mischevious pulling the turf up. Not alot that you can do about it other than to put it back down.

  • Colin Hunt December 9, 2011 at 2:17pm

    One of our maintenance customers rang complaining that she had got up in the morning and found that instead of planting some bare root roses she had left for us the previous day,  'my boys' had just thrown them about the lawn and dug random holes in the grass!  

  • Michael Bates December 11, 2011 at 2:40pm

    So I went to look at the lawn in question on friday and this is what I found. This kind of damage is all over the lawn.

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