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Walked up to the shed to get bike out and the lawn was peppered with mysterious holes!
Any idea of the cause?
I'll be the first: 'lawn'?
Made when the lawn was stolen?
Otherwise have you recently offended a fellow stw’er, could be marks from frozen sausages.
And I thought our lawn needed some work!
Made when the lawn was stolen?
Was the Astro turf nailed down?
micro frozen sausages
Did you roll back your plastic carpet to find all that underneath? Someone hammered frozen chipolatas in there?
(I don’t know, think some bugs, maybe daddy long legs, are starting to make an appearance as badgers are digging up some of my lawns at work looking for them, and by lawns I mean proper areas with grass)
I feel very smug about the occasional sparse patch in my lawn.
Bees
Do you live in a bus stop?
They appear to be mostly in pairs and at the bottom right of the picture there appears to be some sort of pitchfork with only two prongs, so a naughty child would be my guess.
Or some stiletto square-dancing action. Have you heard any country and western music coming from the area recently?
A disguised ninja, with a pointy ended walking stick.
Easily fixed, just put an old beer bottle cap over each one and stomp it into the "lawn". If you are disciplined about your beer drinking, it'll soon be fully paved.
To save the trouble of collecting the caps and installing them later, just do your beer drinking out on the lawn in a broken deck chair or an old sofa. If you want to be really classy, put an old Vauxhall up on blocks and take the front seats out and use them as deck chairs.
According to the leather jacket article :
"The grubs feed primarily on the roots of the grass"
Not much chance of that in the OPs "lawn"!
The best way to get rid of leather jackets is to invite a flock of starlings onto your lawn, they'll soon sort them out.
Bees
would be my guess also
Drunk Pixies on pogo sticks
Just needs some turf, seed, weed and feed and in 2 to 3 years it will be lush.
The holes i would suggest are the least of your lawn concerns...
Looks like you're living in a war zone? So I'm guessing that's damage from either shrapnel or debris thrown into the air by an explosion.
Drunk Pixies on pogo sticks
Bit late in the year for that, normally happens in Spring.
Oh my god.
You need to sort that before they grow up.
Can't help you there, can't even see a blade of grass.
I do get mysterious patches appear in my back garden's lawn, usually associated with my stupid son spilling automotive chemicals - why the fark he takes stuff in the back garden where there is a perfectly usable drive (which he's just destroyed by spilling petrol on it).
Well that’s a new definition of a lawn.
Whilst we're on the subject, any idea what's wrong with my shrubs?
You should talk to De La Soul, they had similar issues a while back.
From the looks of it - napalm!
Link to full image for closer inspection
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Nope. Even at high res I still can't make out a lawn.
That there’s some high bait for low summer 🤭
(3, maybe 4 pages)
The answer is of course graboids, the images shall be along shortly
*Edit gosh darn @joshvegas beat me to it 😝
In other news a popular google search is: ‘are graboids real?’
#alwaysreadfullthread.
Does it remind anyone else of Bill Murray's lawn in St Vincent? 😉
They appear to be mostly in pairs
Lugworm burrows
Could be sand worms. Has the OP been mining Spice recently?
Lugworm burrows
The photo was taken after the tide had gone out?
Well that would certainly help to explain the poor quality of the OP's lawn.
You wear 5:10's and roll on a Butcher tyre I think?
Takes real courage to come on here calling that a lawn.
Respect is due ✊
You wear 5:10’s and roll on a Butcher tyre I think?
510s: yes
tyres: try again!
Do foxes or badgers dig toilet holes in grass?
I run across a golf course and in one section, near some trees next to the boundary(?) is a series of holes filled with large, slimy black turds.
There's never any poo outside of the holes, and some of the holes are empty, but the poo's are only ever in the holes. That or a very well trained dog.
tyres: try again!
My sight is failing these days.... 😉
Do foxes or badgers dig toilet holes in grass?
Badgers do for sure. The badger latrine is most likely what you are seeing.
We had a badger visit our garden for a few years and after a while it decided to make a little golf-hole-sized poo-pit and to fill it with tarry gifts.
Local cavalry unit been practicing pig-sticking on your “lawn”. Lancers have no respect for “lawns”.
The best way to get rid of leather jackets is to invite a flock of starlings onto your lawn
How is that done ?.
Do you send out invitations via the post or put an advert in the local newsagents ?
Send a tweet
Most likely to be green tiger beetle larvae, basically a stomach with fangs attached
My first thoughts, after thinking the neighbours had kindly decided to aerate the area for me, were the kids playing but they hadn't even been outside at that time of the morning. All the holes literally appeared overnight. They don't go straight down, but wiggle around randomly, and aren't cleanly cut holes. Apart from all the dust etc on the top, the ground is quite compacted.