We’ve had some sort of gopher or underground critter chewing up the yard for a while, but they seem to have moved on. (The exterminator sent over by the landlord was useless and the gophers moved on despite him, not because of him.)
Now we’ve got something new living under the yard, but instead of leaving huge (3″ or so in diameter) holes and tunnels in the yard, this new “neighbor” seems to be just leaving large piles of dirt with no obvious entry or hole.
There seem to be a new pile every day. The first two are over by the fence and the ice plant, the the next two out in the open.
One day later. The whole area is pretty much covered now.
I’ve looked when I go out around midnight for my final leg stretching lap of the back yard, but I never see the next day’s pile done by then, so the critter’s doing his damage sometime between midnight and sunrise. For the record, I will *NOT* be staying up all night anytime soon to try to catch it in the act and drive a pitchfork into the ground in an effort to impale the little monster. For one, it’s not my house. Sorry, but I’ve informed the landlord, if he wants to have something done about it, the ball’s in his court.
But I am curious, especially by the difference between the holes and tunnels from the old invader and the piles without holes and tunnels from this one. My first assumption is that we’re dealing with different species of critters. Does anyone know what I’m dealing with here?
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