Birds

Can any one tell me what the grub is that the starlings are pecking up out of my lawn.




Asked on 4 May, 2008 by

sadie
Sadie

Location: west midlands, United Kingdom Gb

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treesandthings
Treesandthi..
 

Possible leather jackets or vine weeval. Are they brown or white?

4 May, 2008

bonkersbon
Bonkersbon
 

Think more likely to be leatherjackets in lawns.These turn into crane flies (daddy long legs) so if you see some dancing over your lawn soon you ll know what they were.

5 May, 2008

spritzhenry
Spritzhenry
 

They are what the badgers dig up in our lawn! What a mess they make...

5 May, 2008

magpies1963
Magpies1963
 

yes its the larvae of the cranefly (daddy long legs). let them feast or your grass will be eaten away

7 Jun, 2009

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