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  • #1

    Any ideas?

    Hi all
    Over the course of digging the garden I have found literally hundreds of these things. They are always underground and are everywhere. Any ideas what they are?



    It moves like a worm, I have got a video of it but it won't let me upload it

    Thanks


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  • #2
    It looks like a leather jacket and will eventually turn into crane fly or daddy longlegs :-

    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=le...ih=642&dpr=1.5
    Location....East Midlands.

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    • #3
      Looks like a leatherjacket to me, the larvae of the crane fly(daddy long legs). These can be a pest and I lost some lettuce to them this year , they eat the roots. I squash them as I dig them up now.
      Last edited by meteor; 04-05-2014, 03:39 PM.

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      • #4
        we always get LOADS of crane flies in our house in the summer and I can't stand them. If I'd known thats what they were I would have squished them instead of throwing them behind his shed!

        thanks

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        • #5
          Yep, nasty leatherjacket
          Please visit my facebook page for the garden i look after

          https://www.facebook.com/PrestonRockGarden

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          • #6
            I would concur.....I don't mind spiders but DLL freak me out

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            • #7
              I've been digging out a big grassy section this week, followed by 2 starlings who grab leatherjackets and chafer grubs from around my feet

              They love it
              All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Mumbles View Post
                Hi all


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                It moves like a worm, I have got a video of it but it won't let me upload it
                Good grief!!!! is it holding you hostage?
                photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.html

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Bill HH View Post
                  Good grief!!!! is it holding you hostage?
                  Its not that Bill, its a copyright issue his lawyers have been on to her
                  Location....East Midlands.

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                  • #10
                    Is that what they are??? Oh my goodness, I've rescued them for years, only now to realise they grow into the dreaded crackly flying nemesis of Summer evenings and open windows. I ruddy hate them 'orrible things! Ah, chickens my lovelies, you shall feast well once I discover more of these awful, awful things shudder, shudder, shuuuuuuuuuder
                    You may say I'm a dreamer... But I'm not the only one...


                    I'm an official nutter - an official 'cropper' of a nutter! I am sooooo pleased to be a cropper! Hurrah!

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                    • #11
                      I've previously saved them to, but I won't be now I know what they turn into!


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                      • #12
                        Just thought- instead of killing them could I put them on a bird table? Or would they just wriggle off?


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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Mumbles View Post

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                          It moves like a worm, I have got a video of it but it won't let me upload it
                          Upload the video: You'll need to speak to his agent!
                          Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
                          Everything is worthy of kindness.

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                          • #14
                            I usually launch them across the garden to take their chances. I don't mind crane flies, these days. Used to be terrified of em when I was wee though. One held me hostage in the toilet once

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