Daddy long legs - a serious problem?
Berkley
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We are inundated with crane flies - both inside and outside. Literally scores of them on our windows and white walls. Two years ago rooks ripped up our lawn in Spring, looking for chafer grubs and I'm worried that leather jackets may cause the same problem. Am I right in thinking that an insecticide should be applied now, in the Autumn?
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Far better to apply nematodes as explained here
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=651
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes Verdun, they'll have to wait until next year to use them, but they do work
However Lawn Grub Killer contains Provado and is being withdrawn at the end of this month because of the ban due to concerns that it is killing bees. See the link I posted.
Selling it after 30th September will be an offence, as will using it after the end of November.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
& too late for the pesticide too unless you're quick - it's being withdrawn from Monday.
Should have been withdrawn years ago. A few leather jackets will cause less damage than the poison
In the sticks near Peterborough
If you could avoid insecticides you would? Hmmmmm
In the sticks near Peterborough
Well said, Verdun. Not to mention the millions flying about in thousands of aeroplanes daily spewing out toxic fumes just under the ozon layer!