Leather Jacket Insect Damage. …long slender larva, called a leatherjacket because of its tough brown skin. They inflict serious damage on home lawns by feeding on the root hairs, roots and crowns of grass plants.
They inflict serious damage on home lawns by feeding on the root hairs, roots and crowns of grass plants. A pathogenic nematode can be watered in. We lost 3/4 of the lawn.
Live just under the soil’s.
Leather jacket nematodes natural organic pest control treats 100sqm 4.3 out of 5 stars 21. We lost 3/4 of the lawn. Leatherjackets can damage the grass in your lawn as they feed on the roots but in many cases, it’s not the larvae themselves that do the most. Leatherjacket pests overwinter in the soil and generally don’t do significant damage until late spring or early summer (or maybe a little earlier if winters are mild).