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WHAT AND WHERE CAN I BUY LEATHER JACKET KILLER?

emma123

By Emma123

United Kingdom

i HAD THESE BLACK WORM TYPE BUGS ALL OVER MY PATIO IN APRIL/MAY THIS YEAR.I FOUND OUT WHAT THEY ARE, BUT NOT SURE WHERE TO BUT SOME KILLER AND WHEN TO PUT IT DOWN, ANY ADVISE PLEASE.




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Emma, your description does not match the grubs that I call leather jackets. Regardless, I would go to a good garden centre and ask them for a solution.

17 Sep, 2009

 

I misread this and thought you were asking where you could get a killer leather jacket and had to click on to see what the answer was!
I agree with bulbaholic, don't sound like leatherjackets to me either - commonest place to find them is in the lawn.

17 Sep, 2009

 

studing your discripton,they could just be leathe jackets, are they short and fat with an armerdilion type sort of skin, if so they are'' jays fluid ,in the watering can ''strenth acording to how bad you have them all over the garden it will nor harm plants or your cat or dog,the budge should not be out there

17 Sep, 2009

 

If they are wormlike and with msny legs they could be millipedes which do no real harm to anything.

17 Sep, 2009

 

Thanks for all you answers! Not sure now if they are what i thought they are? All i know is that there was loads of them, they were like half an inch long, black and some of my grass died.

17 Sep, 2009

 

There was a product called Autumn Toplawn that contained something to discourage/treat for leatherjackets, but I don't know if a) its still available and b) whether it still has something in it to do that. The other two things you could apply to your lawn to kill them earlier in the season have been banned by the EEC.

18 Sep, 2009

 

JustGreen deal in biological water on cures.

19 Sep, 2009

How do I say thanks?

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