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Leather jackets patio

MenostarMenostar Posts: 20
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Hope somebody can help please.

My patio gets covered in thousands of leather jackets when it's wet, they are coming from between the slabs. They nearly all disappear when it dries out.
They don't come out when it's freezing weather but there's more the warmer the night.
Thank you
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  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,497
    Is your place new build?
    I remember that happening not long after I moved to my new build house.
    They devastated my lawn one year but that was it really,just see the odd one now and then.

    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • MenostarMenostar Posts: 20
    No not a new build, 70+years and I've been here 14, never had them before and they are a fair distance away from the lawn just on the patio
  • MenostarMenostar Posts: 20
    Menostar said:
    No not a new build, 70+years and I've been here 14, never had them before and they are a fair distance away from the lawn just on the patio
    This was taken a few weeks ago, they are now much bigger.
    Patio is on sand/cement, no soil
  • MenostarMenostar Posts: 20
    Just taken this now
  • MenostarMenostar Posts: 20
    Anyone have any ideas how to get rid, we need to walk on the path and sweeping them up they are back again in minutes. Thanks
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,737
    🤔 Have you no birds in your garden?  That lot wouldn’t last 20 minutes around here 🐦 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • MenostarMenostar Posts: 20
    No birds this end, too close to the house and side fencing I think.

    Will keep sweeping, can't believe how many there are
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,737
    💡 feed the birds near to the patio ... the robin here comes in the back door and shouts at us if it’s open and he thinks we’ve not put enough food out 😆 
    It’ll take time for the birds to get tame but the robin, blackbirds, wrens and dunnocks here would be in seventh heaven with all those grubs ... not to mention the little family of starlings who live under next door’s eaves. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,497
    Just wondering if the weather has caused an explosion of them?
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • MenostarMenostar Posts: 20
    The patio is lower than the lawn so possible they've been washed down in saturated ground I suppose. Could be a good thing then, less to kill my lawn come spring
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