crawdad holes in yard

[bigred1951]

Anybody know a good way to get rid of them. My yard is full of crawdad holes. It seems like every day there's more mounds of mud where they made another hole. Could I just pour something down the holes

[Chuck White]

Never knew they would come up on dry land and make holes in yards!

Interesting!

Maybe if you could harvest them you could have a "boilin" like magicman does!

[fishpharmer]

Move to higher ground. ;)  Or install drainage so your yard is a less hospitable place for crawfish.  They are tenacious.   

[Magicman]

Crawdads have to make a living too, and are providing a service.  Rainwater goes down those holes to provide "deep watering".  Otherwise it just runs off with minimal soaking in. 

[Autocar]

Take the mud push up's and varnish them and turn them into candle stick holders thousands of dollars free  ;D

[Ox]

This blows my mind.  I didn't know they could live out of constant water submersion for long.  Are they digging down far enough where they hit water?  I also thought they had to be in a creek or pond or something to be able to get food like other critters and such.  What do they eat in the dirt?  Worms? 

It sure is fun to learn new things.  It's one of my favorite parts about being alive on this floating rock.

[Autocar]

Ox on a rainny day you can push a small stick down the hole and there sometimes clamp onto it. Pull real slow and you can pull them right out of there hole. After heavy down pours sometimes you can creep up and you can see them.

[East ky logging]

dad used to have me put some carbide down the holes in the corn fields. I don't know if it did any good or not but I guess he was just trying to get rid of a bunch of it that grandpa had in the barn before I found something more exciting to do with it.

[Banjo picker]

Too bad he didn't give you some matches to go with it.  That might have been exciting enough.  I wonder if any kids still go rabbit hunting with a carbide light?   Banjo

[Texas Ranger]

a little liquid detergent in each burrow will discourage them.

[LeeB]

Google it. Kind of interesting actually. There are crawfish that live primarily on land and others tht live primarily in water. It seems most all of them burrow. The land ones are most active in the spring when it's time to breed.
http://www.loyno.edu/lucec/natural-history-writings/crawfish-and-their-chimneys

https://www.google.com.sa/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjW8uDJwtTUAhVBsBQKHT6KCzcQFggmMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Faskanaturalist.com%2Fburrowing-crayfish%2F&usg=AFQjCNHtaYNW4geZNZ80EUDKuFFYQQ6_lg

[coxy]

why is the screen so long

[barbender]

Huh! We only have the "water version" up here in the North. What else y'all have down there, fish that walk to town, or you have to club them to keep them so they don't walk back to the water? ;D

[Ljohnsaw]

Well, I guess you're never to old to learn somethin'! (old saying?)  Funny how the first link is about craWfish in the south and the second link is all about craYfish in the north. :D

[LeeB]

why is the screen so long

Because the link is long. I don't know how to fix it other than removing the link.

[Ianab]

It's a bit like in the Sth Pacific Islands. We were in Rarotonga getting wedding pics taken at this abandoned house, and Lara pointed out all these holes in the ground. "Rabbit holes?" Nope, right size, but they were coconut crab holes  :D

Called Coconut Crabs because that's what they eat. If you have ever tried to open a coconut, imagine a crab that can do it....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab

[Al_Smith]

I had the bright idea to attack a coconut in the pod when I was in Key West .I'd have stood a better chance of getting into Ft Knox.Like the old saying goes,"that's a tough nut to crack"

[Ianab]

I had the bright idea to attack a coconut in the pod when I was in Key West .I'd have stood a better chance of getting into Ft Knox.Like the old saying goes,"that's a tough nut to crack"

Like a lot of things, it's technique.

I can open one given a few minutes, but no where near as quick as a Cook Islands local. Give one of those guys a pointy stick and rock, they will have climbed the tree, knocked down some nuts, cracked one open, drunk the juice, and be applying coconut suntan oil to any nearby young lady in 30 secs.  :D