oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly the grass,
and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look like tunnels, as far as
I can tell. There are more and more everyday. What is it? Voles,
gophers, or something and what are they looking for and what should I
do?

eek!

Karen wrote:
oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly the grass,
and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look like tunnels, as far as
I can tell. There are more and more everyday. What is it? Voles,
gophers, or something and what are they looking for and what should I
do?

eek!

Could also be squirrels or skunks.

On Sep 23, 5:28*pm, Frank wrote:
Karen wrote:
oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly the grass,
and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look like tunnels, as far as
I can tell. There are more and more everyday. What is it? Voles,
gophers, or something and what are they looking for and what should I
do?

eek!

Could also be squirrels or skunks.

cicadas?

T2B wrote in
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com:

On Sep 23, 5:28*pm, Frank
wrote:
Karen wrote:
oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly
the grass, and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look
like tunnels, as far as I can tell. There are more and more
everyday. What is it? Voles, gophers, or something and what
are they looking for and what should I do?

eek!

Could also be squirrels or skunks.

cicadas?


golf ball size cicadas? are we going for a horror movie? (i have
annual & 17 year cicadas. neither makes a hole bigger than half an
inch)
lee

enigma writes:

T2B wrote in
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On Sep 23, 5:28*pm, Frank
wrote:
Karen wrote:
oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly
the grass, and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look
like tunnels, as far as I can tell. There are more and more
everyday. What is it? Voles, gophers, or something and what
are they looking for and what should I do?

eek!

Could also be squirrels or skunks.

cicadas?


golf ball size cicadas? are we going for a horror movie? (i have
annual & 17 year cicadas. neither makes a hole bigger than half an
inch)

If they don't look like tunnels, I'd say something is foraging for
insects. Something like racoons.

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enigma writes:

T2B wrote in
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On Sep 23, 5:28 pm, Frank
wrote:
Karen wrote:
oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly
the grass, and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look
like tunnels, as far as I can tell. There are more and more
everyday. What is it? Voles, gophers, or something and what
are they looking for and what should I do?

eek!

Could also be squirrels or skunks.

cicadas?


golf ball size cicadas? are we going for a horror movie? (i have
annual & 17 year cicadas. neither makes a hole bigger than half an
inch)

If they don't look like tunnels, I'd say something is foraging for
insects. Something like racoons.

Don't know where you're located but down here in south Texas, the
first thought would be Armadillos.

On Sep 24, 6:34*am, "JC" wrote:
Don't know where you're located but down here in south Texas, the
first thought would be Armadillos.

I'm in San Jose, so probably not armadillos or cicadas.

I haven't smelled any skunks.

If the critter is looking for insects, maybe that's a good thing?

Karen

"JC" writes:

wrote in message
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enigma writes:

T2B wrote in
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On Sep 23, 5:28 pm, Frank
wrote:
Karen wrote:
oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly
the grass, and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look
like tunnels, as far as I can tell. There are more and more
everyday. What is it? Voles, gophers, or something and what
are they looking for and what should I do?

eek!

Could also be squirrels or skunks.

cicadas?


golf ball size cicadas? are we going for a horror movie? (i have
annual & 17 year cicadas. neither makes a hole bigger than half an
inch)

If they don't look like tunnels, I'd say something is foraging for
insects. Something like racoons.

Don't know where you're located but down here in south Texas, the
first thought would be Armadillos.

I agree, I should have mentioned that geographic region is important.

I'm in central NJ and I had a bunch of holes in my lawn this year but
slightly smaller than a golf ball. None of them went more than 4
inches deep. This is periodic Cicada land and my guess is that the
holes were made by racoons looking for cicadas.

So, something like racoons or armadilos.

Karen writes:

On Sep 24, 6:34*am, "JC" wrote:
Don't know where you're located but down here in south Texas, the
first thought would be Armadillos.

I'm in San Jose, so probably not armadillos or cicadas.

I haven't smelled any skunks.

If the critter is looking for insects, maybe that's a good thing?

Yes, it's a good thing.

We have loads of cicadas where I live. I've seen the 17 year periodic
cicadas emerge twice now. The holes they make are about a half inch
in diameter and you can definetly tell its a tunnel, not a hole.

We have loads of skunks too, for all I know it could be skunks instead
of racoons digging my lawn. They don't always smell, usually something
has to mess with them.

"Balvenieman" wrote in message
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Do they get into potted plants?
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Rarely, but it has happened around here. In fact, we found one
sleeping in a very large flower pot one time.

"Karen" wrote in message
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oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly the grass,
and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look like tunnels, as far as
I can tell. There are more and more everyday. What is it? Voles,
gophers, or something and what are they looking for and what should I
do?

eek!

Define "hole". Is it just a small round depression, or is it a tunnel?

Steve

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:53:09 -0700 (PDT), Karen
wrote:

oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly the grass,
and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look like tunnels, as far as
I can tell. There are more and more everyday. What is it? Voles,
gophers, or something and what are they looking for and what should I
do?

eek!


Golfball size holes, in my lawn anyway, are usually work of crawdads.
If left unchecked the holes can get bigger, much bigger. I push pine
cones into the holes, stem side down.

You may need some detective work to identify the cause. Get better
clues asking your neighbors (not sure where you live).

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:14:03 -0600, "SteveB"
wrote:


"Karen" wrote in message
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oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly the grass,
and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look like tunnels, as far as
I can tell. There are more and more everyday. What is it? Voles,
gophers, or something and what are they looking for and what should I
do?

eek!

Define "hole". Is it just a small round depression, or is it a tunnel?


She says "It doesn't look like tunnels, as far as I can tell." If not
tunnels then they must be depressions... if the ground is soft/muddy
and there are rug rats playing they could be making depressions with
toys, or even sticks. Animals don't make depressions other than paw
prints and those would be easily recognizable as such. Only thing
else I can think of is that squirrels were busy digging... they
sometimes dig net little holes to retrieve food that was buried
previously.

Karen wrote:
oh, oh. Am getting golfball sized holes in the yard. Mostly the grass,
and some in the potted plants. It doesn't look like tunnels, as far as
I can tell. There are more and more everyday. What is it? Voles,
gophers, or something and what are they looking for and what should I
do?

eek!

In my yard, when I get small dug-out holes in sod areas, it invariably
turns out to be skunks digging for grubs. I've not found a way to combat
them safely, they having chemical warfare capability on their side.

--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com

On Sep 24, 12:14*pm, "SteveB" wrote:
Define "hole". *Is it just a small round depression, or is it a tunnel?

Investigated a few holes yesterday, and I couldn't detect any tunnel
associated with them.

Thanks,
Karen