Nature works for gardeners

Anyone ever have to act in 'Daddy long legs' as their annual school play?  It's a rather sweet story about an orphan and a mystery benefactor she catches sight of only once as a lankily distorted shadow.

Leatherjacket_Emelt - Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

The insect version is no benefactor for gardeners, as their eggs develop into those nasty-looking grubs we call leatherjackets.  But help from nature is at hand, as they're a favourite food for our avian friends the  rooks, jackdaws and starlings.  So don't be cross when you find little holes in your lawn.

​Andrew Graham tells us more about them and the adult 'daddy long legs' that they become, in MoreNews.
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