What caused mysterious holes in lawn?

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 ?

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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.

kayak23
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Takes real courage to come on here calling that a lawn.
Respect is due ✊

This made me laugh 😁

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😆 😆 very good

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Bravo! 👏👏

Do foxes or badgers dig toilet holes in grass?

Badgers do for sure. The badger latrine is most likely what you are seeing.

Badgers always poo in the same place, away from the sett, they are very clean.
Cattle know to avoid this area as it smells funny. But put too many cows in a field and they have to use the badger poo area they would otherwise avoid and so get TB from the badgers, less cow density much reduces the contraction of TB.
Not much help to the OP as cows don’t dig holes and badger ones are bigger than that.

Petrol and a match will take care of whatever it was.

^ 😆😆😆

Can’t stop watching that, feel for the dogs though. However tempted to try it on a wasp nest I’ve got in one of my lawns at work

How does the dog in that vid vanish then appear on the left hand side?

This thread makes joining this forum worth it, all credit to the OP for taking the pounding.

Definitely someone firing crossbow bolts from a helicopter

@espressoal – 2 dogs, one in right is behind the shed after the explosion, clip cuts away before see both.

2 dogs, one in right is behind the shed after the explosion, clip cuts away before see both.

I think he blew one up, it just vanishes!

Definitely someone firing crossbow bolts from a helicopter

Then came round later to retrieve them.

Maybe there are lots of these holes under lawn but we just don’t see them because it’s covered in grass..normally.

I think it might be worms 😂

Was going to suggest perhaps from a spiked litter picker but, ah, no. Clearly not. When was it most recently a crime scene? Peg holes from the forensic tent?

Guess this is one of the culprits, about an inch long:

Who said the thing that this is called?

How does one of those eat all the grass? It’s tiny!

Tardigrade?

Who said the thing that this is called?

*waves*

Leatherjacket

How does one of those eat all the grass? It’s tiny!

Grass?

You know those spiky litter picking things: one of those. Get them back, they’ve missed some.

That video above is amazing.

As well as shitting his pants he’s also going to get a proper bollocking off the wife!