A sick lawn...

The most peculiar thing happened last week. I haven't treated the lawn with anything this time round, didn't bother with nematodes. This was evident as the lawn is quite thin. Not as bad as last time when it disappeared though.

I was eating dinner one evening and what seemed like fifty starlings descended on the lawn. Each of them was lifting 3-4 leather jackets, taking them onto the paving stones and beating them to death before heading off with them. This continued for about an hour - they took hundreds of the things.

Hopefully that'll mean they won't hatch out as daddy long legs and lay more eggs in the lawn later in the year!
 
That's what i need! There are a couple of starlings visiting every morning so there must be food around. Have treated the lawn twice with nematodes but still finding leatherjackets wherever I dig.
 
Think I've just killed my lawn by getting the dose wrong for iron and fertilizer. Give it a good water later when the sun has gone off it and see if it recovers.
If not I'm going to kill it off re-level it and seed this autumn.
 
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