I live in Northwest Ohio and have hard clay soil. I’ve noticed in the last year. I have two or three holes in my yard that are roughly an inch in diameter and burrow straight down. Any idea what might be doing this?
I live in Northwest Ohio and have hard clay soil. I’ve noticed in the last year. I have two or three holes in my yard that are roughly an inch in diameter and burrow straight down. Any idea what might be doing this?
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CopperCVO
Does it stay waterlogged? Or is it in the ditch? Looks like a mudbug. Crayfish. Crawfish. Crawdad. What ever you call them around your parts.
EitherEtherCat
Did the ruler work? Did you resist drugs!?!?
PacketSpyke
I have bees that do this in my clay soil in Maryland. Maybe it’s something like that?
waymorerocks
Chipmunk
ronnymcdonald
Are they close together or far apart?
ThePortfolio
Cicada wasps maybe?
MarathonManiac
May be a long shot, but some gas companies will ‘probe’ the ground with a bar hole tool to check for gas leaks. If it’s along the path of your service line leading to your gas meter, it’s possibly an inspection. Looks very similar.
Source: am a gas dude.
HereForTools
Weed stash.
RecordingTimely5707
Voles?
durrrrrr7
I had similar holes and it was from voles. Look them up. Maybe them? Are there any little pathways between or around them?
abite
Look up wolf spider hole. Looks almost identical.
Thesheriffisnearer
I would love to do coke of that ruler. I could literally see how high I’m getting
Barry__McCockinher
I’m in Michigan and noticed a similar hole in my lawn. I think it’s some sort of grub or crawfish. It’s always near the water run off area. Hope you find an answer.
notonrexmanningday
Crawfish 100%
jabbadahut1
Someone actually pounded sand er loam clay. /s
It looks like a wasp type insect
Scurvy-Jones
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Kdd450
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taterthotsalad
r/dontputyour….inthat
Edit: Oh shi!!! I didn’t know that was going to be a sub. lol. I only knew of the other one.
Discloner
I have a bunch of these in my yard recently too – in Vermont, so definitely not crawfish. I’m thinking cicadas. I have no proof, other than the robins are OBSESSED with pecking at my lawn lately, I did find a HUGE bug molt on our grill (which I assume was a cicada?) and the area cicadas have been singing their summery song lately, so the timing lines up.
YourDadsBeard
I had something similar show up in CO and was told it was cutworms.
Dead-Yamcha
I dare you to stick your finger in there.
RemarkingTwain
I found one of those holes in the yard as a boy and asked my old man what was down there. And he told me that’s the mud dwelling chubbie sucker.
QuestionablePandaMan
Vole.
eddielee394
100% vole. We get em everywhere on our property (Northwest indiana). Dogs dig em up and pounce on them.
johnnieswalker
Jesse Pinkman and Tucker
DaBossOutlaw
Definitely crawfish. Sometime you can shine a light down in the hole and see them. I’ve got them all over my yard. Usually means water/wet area is nearby.
_Berzeker_
I have that ruler!
Love_that_freedom
Where did you get that ruler? Has been many years since I have seen one.
slurms1390
I’m 33 and commenting because I have that exact same ruler. Thanks for the trip down memory lane
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No idea what it is but that’s a badass ruler!
Tell us you’re a millennial without saying you’re a millennial
Does it stay waterlogged? Or is it in the ditch? Looks like a mudbug. Crayfish. Crawfish. Crawdad. What ever you call them around your parts.
Did the ruler work? Did you resist drugs!?!?
I have bees that do this in my clay soil in Maryland. Maybe it’s something like that?
Chipmunk
Are they close together or far apart?
Cicada wasps maybe?
May be a long shot, but some gas companies will ‘probe’ the ground with a bar hole tool to check for gas leaks. If it’s along the path of your service line leading to your gas meter, it’s possibly an inspection. Looks very similar.
Source: am a gas dude.
Weed stash.
Voles?
I had similar holes and it was from voles. Look them up. Maybe them? Are there any little pathways between or around them?
Look up wolf spider hole. Looks almost identical.
I would love to do coke of that ruler. I could literally see how high I’m getting
I’m in Michigan and noticed a similar hole in my lawn. I think it’s some sort of grub or crawfish. It’s always near the water run off area. Hope you find an answer.
Crawfish 100%
Someone actually pounded sand er loam clay. /s
It looks like a wasp type insect
D. I won’t do Drugs
A. Won’t have an Attitude
R. I will Respect myself
E. I will Educate me now
D.A.R.E.. ..Drugs are really expensive
r/dontputyour….inthat
Edit: Oh shi!!! I didn’t know that was going to be a sub. lol. I only knew of the other one.
I have a bunch of these in my yard recently too – in Vermont, so definitely not crawfish. I’m thinking cicadas. I have no proof, other than the robins are OBSESSED with pecking at my lawn lately, I did find a HUGE bug molt on our grill (which I assume was a cicada?) and the area cicadas have been singing their summery song lately, so the timing lines up.
I had something similar show up in CO and was told it was cutworms.
I dare you to stick your finger in there.
I found one of those holes in the yard as a boy and asked my old man what was down there. And he told me that’s the mud dwelling chubbie sucker.
Vole.
100% vole. We get em everywhere on our property (Northwest indiana). Dogs dig em up and pounce on them.
Jesse Pinkman and Tucker
Definitely crawfish. Sometime you can shine a light down in the hole and see them. I’ve got them all over my yard. Usually means water/wet area is nearby.
I have that ruler!
Where did you get that ruler? Has been many years since I have seen one.
I’m 33 and commenting because I have that exact same ruler. Thanks for the trip down memory lane