Message Board - Pests, Weeds and Diseases: Badgers digging up lawn
29 Sep 2009 by Andrew Grant
Hi guys,
I today for the first time went to see a lawn that has been dug up by what the customer believes to be badgers. Has anyone got any suggestions has to how they can be discouraged from doing this.
Cheers
Andy
29 Sep 2009 by Grassman2011
Treat the worms and leatherjackets.
29 Sep 2009 by R Freeth-Selway
I have seen a large number of Chafer grubs around at the moment too. Might be worth checking for these also.
30 Sep 2009 by Andrew Grant
Thanks guys that is very helpful, what do you recommend to use to treat them?
30 Sep 2009 by tom rogerson
They are supposed to love peanut butter sandwitches, you could try and fill them up with those. it whats the enviromentalists use if the want to relocate a set.
30 Sep 2009 by DannyPC
Hi Andrew,
Two products are popular for chafer grub treatment:
Nemasys C and Merit Turf.
Merit Turf is a professional pesticide - you require NPTC PA2 \ PA6 to apply.
Nemasys C is a natural control but you have only a 1 \2 weeks left of the season to for effective application of this.
As with all animals, badgers are creatures of habit and once they start to learn there is no food available at the site they will seek out new areas to dig. Don't give the customer the impression it is an overnight solution as like a fisherman who fishes the same stretch -he will blank a few times before he stops fishing at that spot.
Kind Regards,
Dan Hughes
30 Sep 2009 by Andrew Grant
Cheers thanks for the advice. Will pass info on to my customer and we will see what she wants to do. Think she would prefer the more organic solution from talking to her.
1 Oct 2009 by Four Oaks
What leads you to believe that badgers are to blame, because I have some strange marks on my cricket square which have appeared since renovation and have eluded recognition. They look like claw marks but each 'nail' mark is about 5 mil wide.
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1 Oct 2009 by jlawrence
I've had some weird marks on my main square that people are trying to tell me are made by dogs.
I'm certainly far from convinced.
I'm often at the club until very late at night - sometimes well into the next morning - and then early in the morning (8am), and I've never seen anyone on my main ground with a dog. Nor have I heard reports of anyone seeing a dog on the main ground. Yet people at the club are still convinced the marks are made by a dog.
I'll admit, some of the marks on the square do look like paw prints, but they only go one way and stop half way across the square - they also don't appear to start at the edge (imo). I've never heard of a dog that can (or would) walk backwards off the square.
What they're made by I've no idea, and at the moment I don't really care - they're not exactly causing much damage - just a bit of a mystery.
For the OP, instead of badgers, it could be squirrels. It's quite amazing the size of hole those little ****s can make.
Of course there's no bounce, bend your back and put some bloody effort in.
1 Oct 2009 by tonybolton
Badgers or more correctly The Eurasian Badger Meles Meles can indeed leave paw prints in softer ground these look like 'paw prints' pads and claw marks. However they also produce 'snuffle holes' almost triangular tears in turf, created by the badger with its nose in search of worms etc., these are pretty distinctive and easily recognised. Hairs are also a good indication that badgers are present, grey with a black tip, with an almost triangular profile, rub it between thumb and forefinger and you will feel it to be almost abrasive. Jon most marks starting suddenly and finshing in a same way are normally made by birds not land based animals. Unless of course 'pigs can fly.'
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