What Type Of Animal Leaves A Runny Poop On Top Of A Flat Rock?

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Sometimes many heads are meliorate than one when information technology comes to solving a problem. Wade Hutcheson, my Extension colleague in Spalding county, gets enough of calls from the citizens of his area request his help in identifying various holes in their landscapes. Wade is certainly familiar with several of the common causes and culprits but he posed a general question to the other metro Atlanta agents recently.

"How practise you folks answer questions about what's digging holes in a thousand? Sometimes the holes are grapefruit size, sometimes golf ball size. Some holes are deep but some are described every bit shallow. Sometimes there are piles of clay and sometimes not. Rarely do my clients see a creature making the pigsty. If moles, basis bees, chipmunks, and the neighbor's dog are ruled out, what's left?

SOIL SUBSIDENCE? My radio work makes me a peachy listener to the descriptions my callers use when they describe landscape holes to me. After they tell me a piffling about their pigsty, my first question is this: "Is there any dirt mounded on elevation of or scattered around the pigsty?"

If loose dirt is nowadays, I have to conclude that some yethoped-for-determined brute put the soil there. If there is no soil around the hole, it probably was caused by soil subsidence from a trash pit or rotted stump or decomposed root underneath.

Stumps are ofttimes covered up past a builder equally they class a lot before construction. Five years later, termites have had several dainty meals hugger-mugger and not much wood tissue is left. A heavy pelting collapses the soil above the hollow, making a hole that mystifies a homeowner who never knew the stump was there.

As well, tree roots don't live forever underground. They frequently die due to drought. When they decompose, the hole is oftentimes oblong only shallow. Patently, the merely thing to be done when the soil subsides is to fill the pigsty with topsoil, found grass if necessary and go near your business.

WHAT IF SOIL IS PRESENT? If soil is piled around the pigsty, a brute did the deed. Since animals and insects of different sizes can make holes in the landscape, my second fix of questions to radio callers is: "How large is the pigsty? What does the soil mound await similar? Where is it located?"

From so on it becomes a affair of matching the pigsty to the likely excavator. Since spring is a common time to discover different mural holes, I've prepared a table to assist you diagnose your ain hole situation.

THE Post-obit TABLE LISTS VARIOUS Hole DIMENSIONS, SOIL Conditions AND HOLE LOCATIONS, FOLLOWED BY THE Beast RESPONSIBLE

12 – 36 inches in bore, thoroughly plowed three inches deep, in flowerbed: armadillo

half dozen – 10 inches in diameter, no mound, scattered in backyard: skunk or raccoon

half-dozen – 10 inches in diameter, mound four inches high, almost garden or befouled: groundhog

2 inches in bore, no mound, scattered in lawn: squirrel digging acorns

2 inches in diameter, modest mound one inch loftier, under a shrub, log pile or concrete slab: chipmunk or rat

2 inches diameter, small mound, in lawn with markedly raised grass nearby: mole

one inch diameter, no mound, adjacent to hosta: vole

1 inch diameter, soil thinly scattered around hole, edge of the k: cicada killer wasp

one inch bore, two inches high and made from balls of mud, near creek: crayfish

One-fourth inch diameter, mound two inches high & wide, several in middle of the lawn: basis bee

No hole , mound two inches loftier & wide, several in eye of the lawn: earthworm

As well diggers might joke, their piece of work involves lots of deep thinking! I'1000 hopeful my tabular array will help you solve landscape hole puzzles without a nifty bargain of thought.

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