The Exmouth club had to temporarily close its green when its groundskeeper discovered the infestation in early June.

But a simple 10p hack can get your grass looking green again Credit: Getty Leatherjackets are the larvae of the crane fly (daddy long-legs) and live just beneath the surface of the lawn before ...

Mosquitoes and crane flies are often confused for one another because they look similar at first glance, and they live in ...

During this time as larvae, crane flies are important for recycling and decomposition — they eat leaves, plants and small bits of organic material in the soil or water bodies where they live.

Crane fly larvae, on the other hand, eat roots of grass, decaying wood, seedlings, fungi, algae, and other vegetation. Adult crane flies live only for a very short period of time.

Building or buying a fruit fly trap will also deter the pests. PHOTO: CHEW ENG GOH Wilson Wong Follow topic: Home & Garden Published Jun 20, 2025, 09:45 AM ...

The pest, a species of fly that has been eradicated in the U.S. for decades, has been moving northward in Mexico, leading the USDA to close the nation's southern border to cattle imports in May.

USDA plans sterile fly facility in Texas to combat screwworm Commodities Published 06/18/2025, 12:57 PM Updated 06/18/2025, 05:05 PM ...

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as part of an effort to keep a flesh ...

The USDA has said the flies have been detected as close as 700 miles (1,127 kilometers) from the U.S. border, and some U.S. agriculture and cattle industry officials have worried that if the ...

The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year, announcing its intent Wednesday to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as ...

The ancient Romans and Greeks dined on insects. Pliny, the first-century Roman scholar and author of Historia Naturalis, wrote that Roman aristocrats loved to eat beetle larvae reared on flour and ...