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Jason
Citizen
Username: Jason
Post Number: 65
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 12:39 pm: | 
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I think I have a gang of skunks or raccoons attacking my lawn. Over the past few days I've noticed a number of little patches across my front lawn, where it looks like some little animal has been digging.
From what I understand, they're looking for grubs - I haven't yet had the chance to do a bit of detective work on the soil to see what I have, but this sounds like a likely scenario.
From previous reading, I have heard that beneficial nematodes and milky spores are a good solution to this - does anyone have any experience using these, and whereabouts locally these can be obtained?
Thanks,
Jason |
darrensager
Citizen
Username: Darrensager
Post Number: 339
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 12:51 pm: |
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Squirrels have been doing a number on my lawn looking for acorns. There are holes everywhere. I've witnessed them firsthand digging away. |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 3176
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 1:04 pm: |
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Yup, sounds like the squirrels to me. Just think of it as aerating the lawn! And it's free and you don't have to do the work! |
BGS
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Username: Bgs
Post Number: 712
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 1:10 pm: |
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Squirrels for sure...this fall watch what the squirrels do...they bury stuff and dig it up about this time of year.... |
Jason
Citizen
Username: Jason
Post Number: 66
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 1:15 pm: |
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If it is squirrels, is there anything I can/should do? ... and why would they just pick on my lawn? - my neighbors' lawns look ok.
I know that we have a vicious 'gang' of squirrels around here, that take great pleasure in biting chunks out of our trash cans.
When the weather warms up a bit, I'm planning on giving the front lawn a dressing of compost, as well as doing some overseeding.
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Politicalmon
Citizen
Username: Politicalmon
Post Number: 105
Registered: 9-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 1:47 pm: |
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Jason,
I don't think there looking for grubs, possibly acorns? Is their an oak tree close by? I also have problems with the critters have been trying to trap the varmints with the $35 trap from Home Depot / Lowes - don't bother it's worthless - As far as the grubs go they usually bury down deep below the frost line during the winter and make there way back up by June. I used the milky spores last year - this method has to be employed consistently over a number of years to have an effect. To keep the cost of the spores down purchase then at Agway in Morristown, the Home Depot price is outrageous - in addition you can buy a larger quantity at Agway which will reduce the price even more.
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Jason
Citizen
Username: Jason
Post Number: 67
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 1:55 pm: |
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Thanks for the pointers on the milky spores. I don't have an Oak Tree close to my house - right by the holes is a Magnolia tree, and then there are a couple of Norway Maples on the strip by the curb. |
Amory Blaine
Citizen
Username: Fscott74
Post Number: 66
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 4:02 pm: |
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I would've thought it was too cold for grubs too but I watched a skunk digging in my backyard last night. There isn't an oak tree in sight.
What else could he have been looking for? |
Pdg
Citizen
Username: Pdg
Post Number: 612
Registered: 5-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 6:02 pm: |
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Found on the internet
Quote:Skunks eat many kinds of animal and vegetable foods, including: beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars, ants, bees, wasps, earthworms, milllipedes, centipedes, crayfish, snails, slugs, salamanders, frogs, turtle eggs, eggs of ground-nesting birds, mice, shrews, squirrels, young rabbits, fish, small snakes, cherries, blackberries, blueberries, grasses, nuts, and carrion.
Striped Skunks will often dig for their food, especially grubs (beetle larvae) and mice.
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