{"id":1239,"date":"2021-05-21T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/blog\/spotted-cranefly-spotted\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T14:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:30:19","slug":"spotted-cranefly-spotted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/blog\/spotted-cranefly-spotted\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotted Cranefly spotted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks have been all about LeatherJackets and forgive me for continuing to share my thoughts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5604\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The recent Webinar I did with BIGGA to discuss the challenge has increased the number of conversations I&#8217;ve had about this subject and shown me how little I know as well as how much we have to learn. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I do smile when I get asked many questions about this subject as I simply don&#8217;t know the answer and I&#8217;m struggling to find anyone who knows the answers about leatherjackets in sports turf in the UK.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This brings me nicely to the latest potential piece in the jigsaw puzzle. The last few days I&#8217;ve received some photos from people of Cranefly, which is great because it helps me build a bigger picture of what&#8217;s going on. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The images aren&#8217;t of either of the two species that we have traditionally associated with turf (European and Marsh) but these images are of the Spotted cranefly. I was out on the road around Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire this week and saw exactly the same myself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>There are around 300 species of cranefly in the UK but I&#8217;ve been taught that only 2 of them cause issues. It appears that the spotted cranefly which is known to hatch in May is out there at the moment getting involved and from what I&#8217;m seeing is happy to lay its eggs in greens as well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This species is easily identified from the Marsh Cranefly (which is what I expected to see at this time of year). The Marsh Cranefly is Grey and the Spotted Cranefly is yellow and black.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/spotted-cranefly-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5605\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>There are so many species of Cranefly and the amount of information recorded about them is fairly limited, from what I can find out currently (and I&#8217;ll be sure to share my further learnings as I learn) is that:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This Cranefly will lay its eggs in May <\/li><li>Eggs can sit in the soil until Autumn when they&#8217;ll hatch.<\/li><li>They have 12-month lifecycle <\/li><li>The larvae are almost indistinguishable from the Marsh and European cranefly<\/li><\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>So potentially we have a third player in the equation who lays at a similar time to the Marsh Cranefly but its eggs take much longer to hatch and we don&#8217;t know what the driver for that hatch is (Time, Temperature, Moisture,????). When they do become leatherjackets we can&#8217;t tell whether they are Spotted, Marsh or European.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I really don&#8217;t know if this species causes us any problems at all but maybe, just maybe it offers part of an answer as to why we are seeing such a wide range of sizes in the leatherjackets we see in the rootzone?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/spotted-cranefly-3-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5608\"\/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks have been all about LeatherJackets and forgive me for continuing to share my thoughts. The recent Webinar I did with BIGGA to discuss the challenge has increased the number of conversations I&#8217;ve had about this subject and shown me how little I know as well as how much we have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acelepryn","category-insects","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greencastadvisory.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}