On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM Shelf Life Community Story Project via
Tweeters <tweeters...> wrote:
> 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:
>
> Hello Tweets,
>
> 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?
>
> Garrett Haynes
> Auburn, WA
>
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