[Adastra] FW: Worms on the increase

[Patrick Roper]

Has anyone ever come across anything like this in the attached photo?

I think they are probably leatherjackets (cranefly larvae) forced up by
saturated soil and washed onto this veranda near Icklesham, East Sussex.
However, if this is the case, why have there not been reports from
elsewhere?

Patrick Roper

-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine Bingham [mailto:cattybing at btinternet.com]
Sent: 18 January 2014 19:05
To: Patrick Roper
Subject: Worms on the increase

Dear Mr. Roper, Thank you for replying to my email.

I am sure you are correct in thinking our worms are leatherjackets but they
are now increasing in quantity (as you can see from the attached) and our
lawn is suffering to the point where we will have no grass in a few days
time, and then presumably they will start on the plants?

Have you any idea how to get rid of them?

Kind regards, Catherine Bingham





-----Original Message-----
From: Catty Bingham
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 6:43 PM
To: cattybing at btinternet.com
Subject: Worms on the increase












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[S J Patton]

Yes!

I posted a picture on the Pan Species Listers Facebook page of larvae I saw climbing the windows of the cafe(!) of the Roundstone garden centre near Littlehampton last week. I went outside and there were lots of larvae on the paving slabs - although nowhere near as many as there are in that photo!

Sarah


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From: Patrick Roper <patrick at prassociates.co.uk>
To: 'Adastra discussion group' <adastra at lists.sxbrc.org.uk>
Cc: john.kramer at btinternet.com; info at buglife.co.uk; Alan.Stubbs at buglife.org.uk
Sent: Monday, 20 January 2014, 18:45
Subject: [Adastra] FW: Worms on the increase


Has anyone ever come across anything like this in the attached photo?

I think they are probably leatherjackets (cranefly larvae) forced up by
saturated soil and washed onto this veranda near Icklesham, East Sussex.
However, if this is the case, why have there not been reports from
elsewhere?

Patrick Roper

-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine Bingham [mailto:cattybing at btinternet.com]
Sent: 18 January 2014 19:05
To: Patrick Roper
Subject: Worms on the increase

Dear Mr. Roper,? ? Thank you for replying to my email.

I am sure you are correct in thinking our worms are leatherjackets but they
are now increasing in quantity (as you can see from the attached) and our
lawn is suffering to the point where we will have no grass in a few days
time, and then presumably they will start on the plants?

Have you any idea how to get rid of them?

Kind regards, Catherine Bingham





-----Original Message-----
From: Catty Bingham
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 6:43 PM
To: cattybing at btinternet.com
Subject: Worms on the increase












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[Rachel Bicker]

The Day of the Leatherjackets!!! That is is literally one of my nightmares!

If they have been moving out en masse it is because they are drowning out in their burrows.They are grass root feeders, so this is a good thing for lawns at least! They will not damage the foliage of other plants, only if they burrow back down into other areas. The lawn will prob be suffering more from being saturated, ours is overly compacted and so has almost gone.



On , Patrick Roper <patrick at prassociates.co.uk> wrote:

Has anyone ever come across anything like this in the attached photo?

I think they are probably leatherjackets (cranefly larvae) forced up by
saturated soil and washed onto this veranda near Icklesham, East Sussex.
However, if this is the case, why have there not been reports from
elsewhere?

Patrick Roper

-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine Bingham [mailto:cattybing at btinternet.com]
Sent: 18 January 2014 19:05
To: Patrick Roper
Subject: Worms on the increase

Dear Mr. Roper,? ? Thank you for replying to my email.

I am sure you are correct in thinking our worms are leatherjackets but they
are now increasing in quantity (as you can see from the attached) and our
lawn is suffering to the point where we will have no grass in a few days
time, and then presumably they will start on the plants?

Have you any idea how to get rid of them?

Kind regards, Catherine Bingham





-----Original Message-----
From: Catty Bingham
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 6:43 PM
To: cattybing at btinternet.com
Subject: Worms on the increase












Sent from my iPhone





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[Peter Hodge]

I remember about 20 years ago when I carried out a survey of the Combe
Haven valley. It was July and there had been a terrific storm during
that week, causing a flash flood that filled all the fields like water
tanks. There the water remained for more than a week and thousands of
drowned Diptera larvae could be seen floating at the edge of the flood,
which surely must have affected the populations of several uncommon
wetland flies.

Peter Hodge.


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From: "Patrick Roper" <patrick at prassociates.co.uk>
To: "'Adastra discussion group'" <adastra at lists.sxbrc.org.uk>
Cc: <john.kramer at btinternet.com>; <info at buglife.co.uk>;
<Alan.Stubbs at buglife.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 6:45 PM
Subject: [Adastra] FW: Worms on the increase

Post by Patrick Roper
Has anyone ever come across anything like this in the attached photo?
I think they are probably leatherjackets (cranefly larvae) forced up by
saturated soil and washed onto this veranda near Icklesham, East Sussex.
However, if this is the case, why have there not been reports from
elsewhere?
Patrick Roper
-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine Bingham [mailto:cattybing at btinternet.com]
Sent: 18 January 2014 19:05
To: Patrick Roper
Subject: Worms on the increase
Dear Mr. Roper, Thank you for replying to my email.
I am sure you are correct in thinking our worms are leatherjackets but they
are now increasing in quantity (as you can see from the attached) and our
lawn is suffering to the point where we will have no grass in a few days
time, and then presumably they will start on the plants?
Have you any idea how to get rid of them?
Kind regards, Catherine Bingham
-----Original Message-----
From: Catty Bingham
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 6:43 PM
To: cattybing at btinternet.com
Subject: Worms on the increase
Sent from my iPhone
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