https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:06:51 -0700, Ant wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


Might be skunks. They can scrape up chunks of law looking for grubs.

https://www.spring-green.com/wp-cont...-to-a-lawn.jpg

On 10/29/2017 3:42 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:06:51 -0700, Ant wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


Might be skunks. They can scrape up chunks of law looking for grubs.

https://www.spring-green.com/wp-cont...-to-a-lawn.jpg

I guess that the skunks out west might have different habits than the ones
from around here -- ours tend to dig single holes and most are nearly
conical and a few inches deep. The photo seems, to me at least, to show
long distributions of the sod. This would suggest something burrowing. Hard
to tell since the picture is at a bad angle. Taking a long sharp knife to
the sod between two humps would probably reveal something or other...

On 10/29/2017 5:18 PM, John McGaw wrote:
On 10/29/2017 3:42 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:06:51 -0700, Ant wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


Might be skunks. They can scrape up chunks of law looking for grubs.

https://www.spring-green.com/wp-cont...-to-a-lawn.jpg


I guess that the skunks out west might have different habits than the
ones from around here -- ours tend to dig single holes and most are
nearly conical and a few inches deep. The photo seems, to me at least,
to show long distributions of the sod. This would suggest something
burrowing. Hard to tell since the picture is at a bad angle. Taking a
long sharp knife to the sod between two humps would probably reveal
something or other...

Skunks would have been my first guess too. They dig up grubs. Maybe
neighbors lawn was treated for grubs.

On 10/29/2017 12:06 PM, Ant wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


I have seen this damage from squirrels burying acorns and nuts. I have
also seen this from birds hunting worms and grubs. This definitely does
not look like gopher, raccoon, or dog damage. Since deer are browsers
(eating shrubs) and not grazers (eating grass), I strongly doubt this is
deer damage. I am not sure about opossums.

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On 10/29/2017 12:06 PM, Ant wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


I have seen this damage from squirrels burying acorns and nuts. I have
also seen this from birds hunting worms and grubs. This definitely does
not look like gopher, raccoon, or dog damage. Since deer are browsers
(eating shrubs) and not grazers (eating grass), I strongly doubt this is
deer damage. I am not sure about opossums.

--
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Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:59:31 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

On 10/29/2017 12:06 PM, Ant wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


I have seen this damage from squirrels burying acorns and nuts. I have
also seen this from birds hunting worms and grubs. This definitely does
not look like gopher, raccoon, or dog damage. Since deer are browsers
(eating shrubs) and not grazers (eating grass), I strongly doubt this is
deer damage. I am not sure about opossums.

Deer graze wherever they find grass but they don't dig... I get herds
of deer, they graze along with the Canada geese, up until the snow
buries the grass, then the deer browse taller plants.
I've no idea what critter is digging up that lawn, only thing I can
think is raccoons, perhaps... could also be possums. Set out a motion
detecting camera.

On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:18:20 -0400, John McGaw
wrote:

On 10/29/2017 3:42 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 12:06:51 -0700, Ant wrote:

https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


Might be skunks. They can scrape up chunks of law looking for grubs.

https://www.spring-green.com/wp-cont...-to-a-lawn.jpg

I guess that the skunks out west might have different habits than the ones
from around here -- ours tend to dig single holes and most are nearly
conical and a few inches deep. The photo seems, to me at least, to show
long distributions of the sod. This would suggest something burrowing. Hard
to tell since the picture is at a bad angle. Taking a long sharp knife to
the sod between two humps would probably reveal something or other...

I am accustomed only to skunks in the northeast.

On 10/29/2017 5:59 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 10/29/2017 12:06 PM, Ant wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


I have seen this damage from squirrels burying acorns and nuts. I have
also seen this from birds hunting worms and grubs. This definitely does
not look like gopher, raccoon, or dog damage. Since deer are browsers
(eating shrubs) and not grazers (eating grass), I strongly doubt this is
deer damage. I am not sure about opossums.

Squirrels and birds make more sense since I have seen them here before.
In fact, we saw a standing squirrel outside the kitchen window about a
couple weeks ago: https://i.imgur.com/g4lX3A4.jpg ...

I am still puzzled why they don't hit the adjacent neighbors' grassy
lawns! :/
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On 10/29/2017 5:59 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 10/29/2017 12:06 PM, Ant wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


I have seen this damage from squirrels burying acorns and nuts. I have
also seen this from birds hunting worms and grubs. This definitely does
not look like gopher, raccoon, or dog damage. Since deer are browsers
(eating shrubs) and not grazers (eating grass), I strongly doubt this is
deer damage. I am not sure about opossums.

Squirrels and birds make more sense since I have seen them here before.
In fact, we saw a standing squirrel outside the kitchen window about a
couple weeks ago: https://i.imgur.com/g4lX3A4.jpg ...

I am still puzzled why they don't hit the adjacent neighbors' grassy
lawns! :/
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On 10/29/2017 6:27 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:59:31 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

On 10/29/2017 12:06 PM, Ant wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


I have seen this damage from squirrels burying acorns and nuts. I have
also seen this from birds hunting worms and grubs. This definitely does
not look like gopher, raccoon, or dog damage. Since deer are browsers
(eating shrubs) and not grazers (eating grass), I strongly doubt this is
deer damage. I am not sure about opossums.

Deer graze wherever they find grass but they don't dig... I get herds
of deer, they graze along with the Canada geese, up until the snow
buries the grass, then the deer browse taller plants.
I've no idea what critter is digging up that lawn, only thing I can
think is raccoons, perhaps... could also be possums. Set out a motion
detecting camera.

Squirrels and birds make more sense since I have seen them here before.
In fact, we saw a standing squirrel outside the kitchen window about a
couple weeks ago: https://i.imgur.com/g4lX3A4.jpg ...

Someone said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPmyUdLrk9Q is a raccoon
that was recorded by an automatic camera at night almost last year.

So, it looks like the holes were from these suspects: squirrels, birds,
and/or raccoons. They were seen in the past sightings? We have not seen
any possums here yet. I did remember seeing one in a near by city
decades ago.

I forgot to mention rabbits too! Maybe they caused the holes?
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On 10/29/2017 10:54 PM, Ant wrote:
On 10/29/2017 6:27 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:59:31 -0700, "David E. Ross"
wrote:

On 10/29/2017 12:06 PM, Ant wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


I have seen this damage from squirrels burying acorns and nuts.Â* I have
also seen this from birds hunting worms and grubs.Â* This definitely does
not look like gopher, raccoon, or dog damage.Â* Since deer are browsers
(eating shrubs) and not grazers (eating grass), I strongly doubt this is
deer damage.Â* I am not sure about opossums.

Deer graze wherever they find grass but they don't dig... I get herds
of deer, they graze along with the Canada geese, up until the snow
buries the grass, then the deer browse taller plants.
I've no idea what critter is digging up that lawn, only thing I can
think is raccoons, perhaps... could also be possums.Â* Set out a motion
detecting camera.

Squirrels and birds make more sense since I have seen them here before. In
fact, we saw a standing squirrel outside the kitchen window about a couple
weeks ago: https://i.imgur.com/g4lX3A4.jpg ...

Someone said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPmyUdLrk9Q is a raccoon that
was recorded by an automatic camera at night almost last year.

So, it looks like the holes were from these suspects: squirrels, birds,
and/or raccoons. They were seen in the past sightings? We have not seen any
possums here yet. I did remember seeing one in a near by city decades ago.

I forgot to mention rabbits too! Maybe they caused the holes?

The squirrels do dig quite a bit in my yard but maybe mine are lazy since
they tend to stay away from my admittedly hard clay lawn and do most of
their burying in the mulched beds. I can tell when they are at it since
they are careless about cleaning up after themselves and leave patches of
mulch scattered on the concrete walkway.

The chipmunks are great diggers too but seem to stick to areas where trees
have been felled and the bulk of the stumps left in the ground. Perhaps
they use the rotting root structure as part of their burrows since the
punky wood is softer than my nasty soil. I have never seen one digging in
the lawn and I do have dozens of them living with me.

On 10/29/2017 7:37 PM, Ant wrote:
On 10/29/2017 5:59 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 10/29/2017 12:06 PM, Ant wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


I have seen this damage from squirrels burying acorns and nuts.* I have
also seen this from birds hunting worms and grubs.* This definitely does
not look like gopher, raccoon, or dog damage.* Since deer are browsers
(eating shrubs) and not grazers (eating grass), I strongly doubt this is
deer damage.* I am not sure about opossums.

Squirrels and birds make more sense since I have seen them here before.
In fact, we saw a standing squirrel outside the kitchen window about a
couple weeks ago: https://i.imgur.com/g4lX3A4.jpg ...

I am still puzzled why they don't hit the adjacent neighbors' grassy
lawns! :/

Do the neighbors use insecticides to kill grubs?

On 10/29/2017 7:37 PM, Ant wrote:
On 10/29/2017 5:59 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
On 10/29/2017 12:06 PM, Ant wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/GUHwN5A.jpg from a local rural So(uthern)
CA(lifornia) house. Gophers? Deers? Dogs? Squirrels? I doubt it is the
ants even though there are Red Imported Fire and Argentine ants' mounds.

The next door neighbors' lawns don't even have this problem. What is
missing and how to stop these dig ups?

Thank you in advance.


I have seen this damage from squirrels burying acorns and nuts.* I have
also seen this from birds hunting worms and grubs.* This definitely does
not look like gopher, raccoon, or dog damage.* Since deer are browsers
(eating shrubs) and not grazers (eating grass), I strongly doubt this is
deer damage.* I am not sure about opossums.

Squirrels and birds make more sense since I have seen them here before.
In fact, we saw a standing squirrel outside the kitchen window about a
couple weeks ago: https://i.imgur.com/g4lX3A4.jpg ...

I am still puzzled why they don't hit the adjacent neighbors' grassy
lawns! :/

Do the neighbors use insecticides to kill grubs?

On 12/16/2017 8:31 AM, Bob F wrote:
....
I am still puzzled why they don't hit the adjacent neighbors' grassy
lawns! :/

Do the neighbors use insecticides to kill grubs?

Probably. Powered insecticides were just put on the lawn yesterday.
We'll see how that goes!
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