Date: 11/11/24 3:42 pm From: Shelf Life Community Story Project via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Crows Tearing Up Grass in Auburn
It’s the invasive chafer beetle in grub stage that the crows love. It is probably impossible to do anything to stop it. The crows are eating an invasive species, so that’s good. Lawns aren’t all that climate friendly anyway; they require watering and often fertilizer. The arrival of the chafer beetle may signal a necessary shift away from lawns.
Jill
> On Nov 11, 2024, at 1:30 PM, <garrettwhaynes...> via Tweeters <tweeters...> wrote:
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> Hello Tweets,
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> I wanted to check the tweeter sphere on a crow phenomenon to see if anyone else is having the same problem. The crows here in Auburn have been ripping up the grass around here. I mean really tearing it up and leaving huge piles and chunks of grass in their wake. Looks like aeration jobs from hell everywhere. They've torn up sections of the grass by Auburn High School, parts of my parents yard, neighbors yards, etc. None of us have ever seen crows wreak destruction on grass like this before. We have heard through the grapevine it's because they are going after grubs, so maybe there is some unusually large grub crop and they are going crazy for them and tearing out the grass to get to them?
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> Garrett Haynes
> Auburn, WA
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