Damage by wild boar attacks on lawns

The wild boars are becoming more and more of a problem on golf course lawns, and the lack of predators means that they have become a pest that is difficult to solve.

The difficulty in obtaining hunting permits means that the means of eliminating or scaring them away are limited to the use of electric herders, which cannot be used in the whole area of the field for obvious reasons; waiting and hunting permits which allow the baiting and elimination of certain specimens "night stalking", which can sometimes attract more specimens; the use of sprays; camphor balls; the use of scattered human hair; and it even seems that wolf urine is being commercialised.... although they will eventually get used to all these kinds of systems.

The damage is caused by the search for food, be it truffles, acorns, mushrooms, snails, worms, etc. The most damaging are the groups of wild boars with their young or "rayones". They usually go in packs and are very harmful. The rutting season is between November and the beginning of December.

Attacks generally occur in especially damp, tall-grass antegreens or roughs, to wallow and regulate their temperature, rarely on the greens because, it is said, the greens flags are touched daily by players and the smell keeps them away.

In the Iberian Peninsula we have two subspecies: the Albar (Sus scrofa castilianus) and the Arocho (Sus scrofa baeticus).

Tiloom recommends above all a lot of patience...