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Posted: 5/12/2014 2:49:30 PM EDT
I have lots of holes in my yard that are about as big around as a quarter. I though they were from voles, but when I stuck the hose in them to flush the critters out, the only thing to emerge were fairly large frogs/toads. I'm thinking they aren't the creatures that are actually digging the holes. I also never saw any water shoot out from other holes, but the holes I put the hose in never filled up either. Where is the water going?

ETA: the frogs emerged from the holes where I had the hose stuck in after I pulled it back out.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 2:51:51 PM EDT
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Badgers are drinking it all.  Badgers get really thirsty.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 2:53:49 PM EDT
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This actually happened to me.  I stuck a hose in my rear but eventually water came out my mouth… Check your basement, it may be full of water by this point.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 2:55:30 PM EDT
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Mud bug
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 2:56:06 PM EDT
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No basement but the thought did cross my mind that I may have a geyser in my crawl space
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 2:57:50 PM EDT
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If I have crawfish in my yard, I must find out how to catch them and eat their delicious insides. But I've never seen one in my yard, and I'm a good ways from any water source...
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 2:58:06 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/12/2014 2:58:13 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:03:55 PM EDT
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Ok just googled pics of mud bug holes and mine are different. Mine don't have the little piles of dirt around the a they are just holes in the ground. Apparently toads burrow, so maybe that's my problem.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:07:06 PM EDT
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Ok just googled pics of mud bug holes and mine are different. Mine don't have the little piles of dirt around the a they are just holes in the ground. Apparently toads burrow, so maybe that's my problem.
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The little piles aren't all tell tale.

 



Get a string, tie some bacon to it, fish the holes, they will grab on and carefully pull them out.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:09:30 PM EDT
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stick penis in holes
wiggle it until something latches on
then pull it out of the hole and pee on it for dominance
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:11:33 PM EDT
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It sounds like they may be doing something good for the lawn.....aerating it.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:12:03 PM EDT
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Google still leads me to believe they are vole holes. I live at over 600 feet on a ridge. Never seen a crawfish near here.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:16:01 PM EDT
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Well, only way to find out.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:16:03 PM EDT
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Pics?
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:23:50 PM EDT
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Are you suspecting Voles? Or Moles?
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:27:53 PM EDT
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Google still leads me to believe they are vole holes. I live at over 600 feet on a ridge. Never seen a crawfish near here.
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Are there road map like trails in your grass?
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:31:06 PM EDT
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They couldn't possibly be toad burrows.    
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:34:08 PM EDT
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I have 3 holes in My yard that are about the size of a 50c piece with no dirt mounds.
Chipmunks are living in Them.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:39:24 PM EDT
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I bet they are chipmunks....
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:42:03 PM EDT
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Let me get this straight....
He has holes in his yard.
He puts water down the holes and toads emerge.

How do you arrive at "chipmunks"?
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:45:47 PM EDT
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Let me get this straight....
He has holes in his yard.
He puts water down the holes and toads emerge.

How do you arrive at "chipmunks"?
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Let me get this straight....
He has holes in his yard.
He puts water down the holes and toads emerge.

How do you arrive at "chipmunks"?

I couldn't stop laughing at your post.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:49:40 PM EDT
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I couldn't stop laughing at your post.
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I bet they are chipmunks....


Let me get this straight....
He has holes in his yard.
He puts water down the holes and toads emerge.

How do you arrive at "chipmunks"?

I couldn't stop laughing at your post.



Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:49:44 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:51:45 PM EDT
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Use a warm water enema bottle for constipation.
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Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:53:30 PM EDT
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armadillos
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:56:01 PM EDT
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If I have crawfish in my yard, I must find out how to catch them and eat their delicious insides. But I've never seen one in my yard, and I'm a good ways from any water source...
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If I have crawfish in my yard, I must find out how to catch them and eat their delicious insides. But I've never seen one in my yard, and I'm a good ways from any water source...



I occasionally get one in my yard with no water source nearby, when I was little I used to go out in the fields (away from water sources) and catch them so it could be crawfish  but it could also be mole holes that toads and frogs have moved into, I get that in my yard. Garter snakes like them too. I've never seen a vole, we my not have them here. IDK

put those kids to work
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:56:31 PM EDT
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start digging to find out what is at the bottom of the hole
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 3:58:40 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:03:37 PM EDT
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There are probably 2 dozen holes like those in my front yard. Those 4 are the biggest though.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:04:55 PM EDT
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Ground Hornets
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:07:31 PM EDT
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Be careful about putting your bare feet near those holes....





you might end up losing one of those ugly toes











 
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:11:03 PM EDT
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Skunk
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:11:04 PM EDT
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Venomous snake holes.  Over 2 dozen you say?  Likely a den of thousands right under the grass.

His name was DiscoVolante.  
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:14:18 PM EDT
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Japanese hornets.  Prepare your anus.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ1eAM8CChc
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:15:15 PM EDT
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Venomous snake holes.  Over 2 dozen you say?  Likely a den of thousands right under the grass.

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Unpossible! I have a stray cat or two in my yard to keep the snakes out... But the back 1/3 acre is a legit jungle though, I won't even go back there in the summer time. The highway department killed a massive rattlesnake on the road behind my property one day.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:17:26 PM EDT
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That's the beginning of a sink hole.  Put for sale sign up right now and avoid the loss.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:17:27 PM EDT
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Bottomless pit you say? DO THIS!!!!!!


Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:18:27 PM EDT
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Moles?

Moles are attracted by grubs (as are skunks) of beetles, and are often a cause of brown and dead areas in a lawn (from the grubs). Then you get that infestation of Japanese beetles.

Treatment is long term, spreading milky spores to kill the grubs over a year or 2. No food source, no moles or grubs.

The good news is that once you've treated the lawn with milky spores, they'll be good 15-25 years, and will also spread to your neighbors property. Milky spores are expensive, but worth it.

Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:19:55 PM EDT
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Nuke them from orbit.



It's the only way to be sure.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:23:31 PM EDT
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The hole I have seen Chipmunks going into in My yard.


Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:23:55 PM EDT
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OP -Question- do you have a shovel?  
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:52:14 PM EDT
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C'mon.....Those holes are way to small for him to have used a shovel.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:54:23 PM EDT
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If I have crawfish in my yard, I must find out how to catch them and eat their delicious insides. But I've never seen one in my yard, and I'm a good ways from any water source...
You just told us you had a hose, water comes outta that thing, you even said you used to to get water

 
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 4:56:11 PM EDT
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C'mon.....Those holes are way to small for him to have used a shovel.
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C'mon.....Those holes are way to small for him to have used a shovel.



Link Posted: 5/12/2014 5:01:36 PM EDT
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Badgers are drinking it all.  Badgers get really thirsty.
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Link Posted: 5/12/2014 5:04:49 PM EDT
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Bottomless pit you say? DO THIS!!!!!!


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I was going to post the same thing.
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 5:04:50 PM EDT
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I think you have a neighbor humping your yard...
Link Posted: 5/12/2014 5:08:05 PM EDT
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Well its a good thing you're going barefoot in your yard.  It'll show whatever is making those holes you're not one bit afraid of it.


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