Varments digging holes..

[jeepit]

in my lawn. I assume they are searching for grubs. Which is strange since this is the first time in 11 years that I ever treated the lawn for grubs.

Any ideas to trap them? or treat lawn to keep them off. I have a trap to use just hope it is not a skunk doing this...

 

[fest3er]

Kill the grubs (Diazinon or its currently available counterpart). Once the grubs are gone, the critters will stop digging for them.

 

[HoleshotHolset]

What type of digging?

Our lawn was 1st destroyed by draught and then it was destroyed by skunks, Sandhill cranes and everything else that loves - you guessed it - grubs.



To top it all off, the dry soil has allowed gophers to run a bit amuck. I call them gophers since I never spent the time to find out for sure what they are. They're about the size of a small squirrel, look like chipmunks and stand up on their hind legs like a prairie dog.



Anywho - my Marlin 795 and a 4x32 scope has taken out 4 of these buggers on our property alone. I think I've got one left and his days are numbered. I wouldn't mind if they had one hole and some tunnels, but they've destroyed the whole darn property. What was once a pleasant member of the ecosystem has become very problematic.



If it keeps up I'm going to get even more redneck with 'em... not like on Caddyshack or anything like that... yet.



From IMDB:

Sandy: I want you to kill every gophers on the golf course!

Carl Spackler: Correct me if I'm wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they're gonna lock me up and throw away the key...

Sandy: Not golfers, you great fool! Gophers! The *little* *brown*, *furry* *rodents* -!

Carl Spackler: We can do that; we don't even have to have a reason. All right, let's do the same thing, but with gophers -!



Beers,



Matt

 

[jeepit]

Matt, the holes are just surface holes 2" deep. Probably about 70 holes. They are not tunneling which leads me to believe the most likely culprit is a racoon. We usually don't see these real close to our place but a new subdivision is going up west of us and maybe that is driving the critters out.