Any ideas?

[Mumbles]

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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[Bren In Pots]

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

[meteor]

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.

[Mumbles]

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

[andy_j]

Yep, nasty leatherjacket

[Greenleaves]

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

[Two_Sheds]

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

[Bill HH]

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?

[Bren In Pots]

Good grief!!!! is it holding you hostage?

Its not that Bill, its a copyright issue his lawyers have been on to her

[ancee]

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

[Mumbles]

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


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[Mumbles]

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


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[Knight of Albion]

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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!

[Shadylane]

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