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Nov 2, 2019 2:49 PM CST
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We recently moved home and I've found a number of mud mounds in our new garden. They start off as small wet muddy areas and then become a dry clay like mound that if you break up, its like fine brown powder. It looks like a type of fungus. Does anyone know what they may be and how to prevent them?
I'm concerned that if the kids play with them and inhale the powder it could be harmful.
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Nov 2, 2019 3:58 PM CST
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When the ground gets wet the ants bring the wet soil to the top of the ground one tiny grain at a time. Nothing to worry about your kids will be fine. I noticed Your Saint Augustine grass blades are cut zagged and if you sharpened your lawn mower blade it would help you grass look and grow better.
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Nov 2, 2019 4:36 PM CST
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I don't know, that does not look like the work of ants to me.
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Nov 2, 2019 4:42 PM CST
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Maybe the Jerusalem Crickets are coming up.
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Nov 2, 2019 4:59 PM CST
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Is the mud fashioned into conical towers with an opening on top? If it is, that would be a kind of crawdad. People around here call them land mud bugs. I finally figured out what they were when I found one broken down and the shell remains of one beside it, a meal, no doubt, for a hungry coon! Hilarious!
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Nov 2, 2019 6:10 PM CST
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I doubt there would be crawdads in the middle of Los Angeles. Green Grin!
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Nov 2, 2019 6:17 PM CST
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Probably not, but you never know. I live nearly in the square middle of my town, and I didn't expect a coyote to be trotting down the middle of my street, either! Rolling on the floor laughing Rolling on the floor laughing Rolling on the floor laughing
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Nov 2, 2019 6:25 PM CST
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Nov 2, 2019 6:34 PM CST
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Nov 2, 2019 7:05 PM CST
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gardenfish said:Probably not, but you never know. I live nearly in the square middle of my town, and I didn't expect a coyote to be trotting down the middle of my street, either! Rolling on the floor laughing Rolling on the floor laughing Rolling on the floor laughing


Then I won't tell you about the mountain lion who visited Harrah's Club in down town Reno a couple years ago. Rolling on the floor laughing

Dig down into one of those mounds and see whats under it.
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Nov 3, 2019 1:32 AM CST
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Daisy, have you heard about the coyote that was photographed on the terrace seating of a bar in Manhattan on the top of a high rise? I don't think he was there for an old fashion!
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Nov 3, 2019 6:58 AM CST
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Well, coyotes are known for their ability to adapt and fit into to changing environments.
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Nov 4, 2019 8:26 AM CST
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Nov 4, 2019 9:23 AM CST
Name: Lynda Horn
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I am not sure if the ones in people's yards are the same found in all our major bodies of water, and our small creeks, too. I do know that crawdads can survive for a long amount of time out of water, so maybe it is not unreasonable to think they could travel far distances. However that would not explain how they could live without water in someone's yard, unless the tunnels under the cones they build go down to a water table of some sort. More info needed on this.
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Nov 4, 2019 9:29 AM CST
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Just googled crawdads.. there are terrestrial ones that spend most of their life on land, and make mounds like I was describing. Even a you tube video showing how to extricate them from the mounds...
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Nov 4, 2019 10:14 AM CST
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I don't think there are any terrestrial crawdads in California. @Pamel, did you dig into a mound to see what, if anything, is underneath?
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Nov 4, 2019 12:49 PM CST
Name: Lynda Horn
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Daisy are there any crawdads in California?
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Nov 4, 2019 1:03 PM CST
Name: Daisy I
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Yes, but only in Northern California.
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Nov 4, 2019 1:44 PM CST
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Nov 4, 2019 1:58 PM CST
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Only if the crawdads found a ditch running 400 miles south. Smiling
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