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Post by Mean Gene on Apr 13, 2023 6:34:18 GMT -5
So, have looked at a couple houses, and in each place, in the yards, there were little mud volcano looking things. What are they, and what lives in them?
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Post by firstwd on Apr 13, 2023 6:49:48 GMT -5
Crawdads, crayfish, mud bugs, pick your favorite name
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Post by Mean Gene on Apr 13, 2023 6:59:18 GMT -5
Even where there's no pond? Dang, those guys would be some industrious little buggers.
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Post by scrub-buster on Apr 13, 2023 7:02:02 GMT -5
They were all over our playground when I was in grade school. I spent many recesses trying to get them out of the ground.
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Post by jjas on Apr 13, 2023 7:05:02 GMT -5
Even where there's no pond? Dang, those guys would be some industrious little buggers. I've seen them in areas that hold moisture from rain/runoff that stayed wet enough during the Winter/Spring that crawfish live there and build their mounds. Below is a video about controlling them in your yard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LChnVJR05PY
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Post by Mean Gene on Apr 13, 2023 7:11:06 GMT -5
Even where there's no pond? Dang, those guys would be some industrious little buggers. I've seen them in areas that hold moisture from rain/runoff that stayed wet enough during the Winter/Spring that crawfish live there and build their mounds. Below is a video about controlling them in your yard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LChnVJR05PYJust watched it...way cool, thanks. Grew up around canals in California, never saw one of those mounds. Different species I suppose.
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Post by stevein on Apr 13, 2023 8:09:48 GMT -5
I've seen them in areas that hold moisture from rain/runoff that stayed wet enough during the Winter/Spring that crawfish live there and build their mounds. Below is a video about controlling them in your yard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LChnVJR05PYJust watched it...way cool, thanks. Grew up around canals in California, never saw one of those mounds. Different species I suppose. Most likly California does not have clay to form the mounds like we do. Wet packed clay + hot sun = bricks.
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Post by duff on Apr 13, 2023 18:04:42 GMT -5
Used to feed night crawlers to them in my back yard growing up. Could use a dandelion stem and pull them out....sometimes
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Post by Ahawkeye on Apr 13, 2023 18:28:21 GMT -5
So here's a question for everyone. What is the difference between crawdads here and crawdads in the deep south? Why do they eat theirs and we don't? I've always wondered.
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Post by marshallco on Apr 13, 2023 22:13:12 GMT -5
Around here they’re about 1 1/2 - 2 inches tops. Down south they’re 4 plus inches, a lot more meat and worth your while.
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Post by Mean Gene on Apr 14, 2023 6:04:59 GMT -5
Around here they’re about 1 1/2 - 2 inches tops. Down south they’re 4 plus inches, a lot more meat and worth your while. 1 1/2 - 2 inches is about perfect size for bait.
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Post by esshup on Apr 14, 2023 20:10:32 GMT -5
So here's a question for everyone. What is the difference between crawdads here and crawdads in the deep south? Why do they eat theirs and we don't? I've always wondered. Not a dang thing different. Size maybe, but you can find eaters up here too. As for the chimneys, different crawdad species have different habits. Not all burrow and make those chimneys.
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Post by duff on Apr 14, 2023 20:59:55 GMT -5
So here's a question for everyone. What is the difference between crawdads here and crawdads in the deep south? Why do they eat theirs and we don't? I've always wondered. Not a dang thing different. Size maybe, but you can find eaters up here too. As for the chimneys, different crawdad species have different habits. Not all burrow and make those chimneys. I have to think volume too. I have had some minnow traps fill up with crawdads but not sure we have the density to run big traps like they do in LA
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