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Burrowing beetle?


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Can anyone please tell me what this insect is. We have holes all over our lawns and grass paths. The holes are between 15mm to 20mm dia. and at least 150mm deep although I haven't tried poking anything longer down them. The insect comes out head first and if startled reverses back down. It has 6 legs, the 2 hind legs are longer than the front and middle ones and its a dark brown colour. We have had them for several years but they now seem to be multiplying.
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Thankyou for that I have re-looked at the cricket and identified it as a mole cricket. No wonder our lawns and paths have loads of bare patches as they are root eating insects. Anyone know how to get rid of them please?

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Thankyou Jay for the article. One suggestion was to water an area with diluted washing-up liquid, so Pete was able to tread on 3 of them. I had tried to drown them with the hose down the holes but that didn't work, just flooded the lawn, so I think we might resort to the w/up liquid and eliminate as many as we can.

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