Leatherjacket
The word leatherjacket may refer to more than one organism: ...
A Beaked Leatherjacket
A Beaked Leatherjacket at the Great Barrier Reef
A Beaked Leatherjacket collected on the Mindoro Island
A Beaked Salmon trawled on the NORFANZ expedition
A Bean's Bigscale trawled at south of Norfolk Island ...
The larvae of crane flies are called leatherjackets. Most spend their lives in water or moist places munching on decaying vegetation, although some eat live vegetation and a few are predators.
The order Tetraodontiformes (Latin for "four teeth") is a group of more than 300 fish species that includes sunfishes, spike fishes, leatherjackets, boxfishes, puffers, and porcupinefishes.
Aluterus monoceros (Unicorn leatherjacket)
Arothron hispidus (White-spotted puffer)
Mola mola (Ocean sunfish)
Rhinecanthus aculeatus (Picasso fish or Humuhumu) ...
ORDER: Tetraodontiformes (cowfishes, filefishes, leatherjackets,
puffers, triggerfishes, and trunkfishes)
FAMILY: Diodontidae (burrfishes and porcupinefishes) ...
A specialist feeder on invertebrates, they will take beetles and their larvae, fly larvae (especially leatherjackets), ants, their grubs and pupae, spiders, sand hoppers, and sometimes earthworms.
One of their very favorite foods is the large larva of the leatherjacket, or marsh cranefly (Tipula paludosa), which eats the roots of grass plants.
However, moles are also useful. They eat many pests which are harmful to plant roots, such as leatherjackets, wireworms and cutworms. Their tunnelling helps to aerate the soil which is important to waterlogged areas.
and BTO surveys show that numbers in Britain have fallen by about 66% since the 1970s. This is largely due to the changing agricultural landscape with less permanent pasture and mixed farming reducing the supply of earthworms and leatherjackets on ...
Lastly, as regards the phytophagous forms, there can be no doubt that the destruction of grass-lands by "leatherjackets" (the larvae of crane-flies, or daddy-long-legs, - Tipula oleracea and T. paludosa), ...
 See also: Spider, Coral, Shell, Genet, Parrot
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