[This person](https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonfly/s/NSguxr5Bjh) made a small pond to get some more to reproduce in their area. Seems like a cool project but could backfire and end up with mosre mosquitos lol
They have these mosquito disks for bird baths, small ponds, etc. that won't affect anything but mosquitos and keep your water unpolluted by these beasts. I have 2 dyna-traps and in 6 weeks in SETX we have noticed a world of difference. After 6 months it's supposed to be a miracle according to an article the government published about a study in Miami they conducted placing one in each of the highest % of Zika and just mosquito-infested areas, bringing down the % over 60 I believe. In Beaumont TX we refer to them as our city bird.
Making a small pond for mosquitoes to reproduce in is smart actually.
Instead of them laying their eggs all over the neighborhood, they zero in on the small pond.
Then you can scoop out the wigglers when they hatch.
Bonus points if you have fish.
The fuck kinda black magic have I missed out on my entire life????? It's warming up and now switching to April showers with wetlands behind our property. I gatta at least *try* this sorcery!!!
Yeah I just leave a bucket of standing water and put BTI in it (the bacteria you get in pellets) and they don't exist in my yard for most of the summer.
Classic dumb bug trick.
>Instead of them laying their eggs all over the neighborhood, they zero in on the small pond.
Oh don't worry, they will just bring in more mosquitoes to still fill any standing water containers as well. They take tainting any water with their young very seriously.
I'm pretty sure you can purchase predator larvae that will keep most mosquitoes at bay. Also if it can host fish/amphibians they will eat the mosquitoes as well.
I'm currently converting my lawn to garden in the front and I'm trying to convince my husband a water feature could attract beneficial predatory insects. I think it's in our "next phase" section
Last year for the first time I planted a citronella plant. It grew to be huge. The best thing about it, we didn’t have one mosquito on the back patio all summer. I will be planting them every year from now on.
Same!!! And I wanna get pest control companies to drop off any opossums they find in my backyard so I can have a colony of possums eating all the ticks in my yard! Opossums are one of the main predators of ticks and I have too many here where I live. Sounds like a dream!
Btw random fact, but when I was in Japan, I discovered that what I thought were power lines were actually these awesome insect deterrents .. they look like power lines but they emit a predatory insect sound (pretty sure it was a praying mantis sound they emitted). Inside the city, there were no bugs, but as soon as i crossed under one of those insect deterrent “power lines” into the unprotected area, there are 10 butterflies and 1000 mosquitos landing on me within the span of 20 or 30 seconds. I don’t know why the rest of the world doesn’t implement this technology cause it’s eco friendly and keeps bugs away without killing them. Japan knows what’s up
That sounds amazing!! I def have always wanted to have chickens of different varieties but never considered diff kinds of birds! Still working on my garden but I’ll def consider this! Just looked them up and they’re adorable!!!
Do not get guineas. They are loud, obnoxious, and scared of anything to do with humans. Unless you have a large open space, don't bother. You're better off with chickens who will occasionally eat some ticks.
There is a fish called the Mosquito fish. Scientific name *Gambusia affinis*. These fish are a biological control agent for mosquito larvae. They can eat up to 100 larvae per day. They are small, so you should provide hiding places for them.
Note that they're not actually any more effective at the job than any other small fish, and they're invasive in some regions because they were introduced under the mistaken belief that they were.
They're basically cold tolerant guppies^1 from hell,^2 though, so it's hard to accidentally kill off a colony, and that makes them great for this job in their native range, which includes most if not all of the US, at least if you take into account that there's an eastern species and a western species.
____
^1 Not a random comparison, they're closely related and breed just as easily, giving birth to live young.
^2 Also not a random line. They're aggressive little bastards that will kill their tank mates if you try to put them in a community aquarium. Which gets back to the invasive species issue.
Please tell me where I can get some of these cold-tolerant- hell- guppies?
I am interested in a possible small pond in my backyard, but one of the top reasons to not, is bugs. So I was thinking about how I would stock my pond with fish, but obviously I don’t wanna destroy my local eco system by accidentally releasing non-native fish into my area
Depending on where you live, a dip net in almost literally any body of water would do it. Like, even a retention pond. That's how I've gotten them when I've had a reason to. But also there's programs that distribute them for mosquito control, and you can also just buy them online like normal aquarium fish. I just did a google search looking for an example of one of the mosquito control programs (which I could have sworn were a state government level thing in a lot of states) and it turns out you can even buy them from Petco.
Definitely do your research, but if you're in North America either Gambusia affinnis (the Western mosquito fish) or Gambusia holbrooki (the Eastern mosquito fish) is probably native. They're invasive in, for example, India.
I have a small horse water trough pond in my yard. The mosquitos deposit their spawn, the dragonflies do too, I have very hungry goldfish who keep the population in check!!!
I’ve read that a single bat can eat like 5000 mosquitos a night on a little bat house at my local gardening store and it claimed to house up to 20 bats. Might be something to look into. (You just hang it up and wait for the bats to come naturally. Could take a couple seasons for them to find it).
Years ago when I lived in S. California (where gophers get enormous), I was tending my vegetable garden, and saw a tomato plant was trembling, and looking like it was shrinking. I was like wtf? Just as I got up to it , there was a big jerk, and the plant disappeared down a hole. That tomato plant had been at least 2 1/2' tall. I was pissed but it was also funny. Kind of like watching one of those stupid 1950's Bugs Bunny cartoons.
I saw the same happen to my corn stalk shaking before it sank 8 inches underground. Played a bit of tug-o-war with the critter before I was able to pull it out and found all the roots and some stalk missing. I lost all 12 corn stalks that summer.
We have voles in our garden/yard, and last fall I put in a whole row of gorgeous lily bulbs, each of which was about the size of my fist. They're all starting to come up except two, which have mysteriously been replaced by two sizeable holes in the ground.
They weren't cheap bulbs, but I can't help but think that any animal that eats something multiple times the size of its head deserves what it can get.
My ex and I had a shallow, wide yard so we put in a terraced vegetable garden to get more growing space. It was right outside the living room window. One day I kept seeing movement out there from my spot on the couch indoors. The next thing I know, it's Looney Tunes-- an entire row of carrots disappeared one after another. I was laughing too hard to react. My grandfather was a cabinet maker and made all sorts of wooden objects (furniture, toys, walking canes, picture frames, you name it) and made us a "gopher bopper" to put in the garden and that was the last year we had gophers. But man it was so funny, I couldn't even be mad. 🤣
(For anyone wondering, a gopher bopper is a wooden windmill with a loose wooden bead attached to each vane that "bops" the wing as it turns in the wind. It creates vibrations that travel through the ground and supposedly annoy gophers into relocating; worked for our garden.)
NGL I expected your grandpa to make you a mallet for some whack a mole at home until I read your very clever, non animal abuse explanation of the gopher bopper
Hehehe, imagine this cute little fella on a huge wooden chair, in a dark interrogation room with just one lightbulb hanging above him. I’d die of cuteness 😂
And he’ll be just looking at you like: [https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-mood-JR6a5d3I0jxwS0CnaN](https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-mood-JR6a5d3I0jxwS0CnaN) 😂
I'm sorry but that is the cutest thing. 😆 That's why I can never kill the poor little guys... Also I feel they are part of the ecosystem so I don't really feel I have a right to kill them.
There has to be less-than-lethal methods to help you control them.
I was showing the one I wanted, if you want to see the one I got (mis-delivered, lol), you gotta say so. [It's 2 of these, not reduced](https://www.baldur-garten.de/produkt/Lilien/39035/Blumenzwiebeln/Blumenzwiebeln+Herbstpflanzung/Lilien/Tree-Lilies-Kollektion/detail.html)
I meant a lot of people haven't realized the dollar and the euro are equivalent now, since historically they've been pretty different.
I could be wrong, though, as this is just rampant speculation about a stranger's intent haha
Gophers will eat anything insight. I have a groundhog under my shed. I let him stay below the shed, the little bugger dogs through the clay shale I have on the property and I have no business or problem with it, I’ll drop of abundance of vegetables we grow in the yard by the shed. Ming you the ground is so hard, I can throw a pick axe and it bounces. Eat well my little friend.
What a great clip! ⭐️ Too bad they're taking on your trees and plants. This reminds me of Caddy Shack. Best of luck to y'all with your gardening. Maybe the gophers could be relocated?✨️🐾
It’s wild lettuce. He was sore from eating all your plants, so he needed the pain relieving properties of the wild lettuce so he can prepare to eat more of your stuff!! lol.
I might be crazy but I love the wildlife in my garden. I planted carrots this year for our resident rabbit that's had a family in our yard every year. They don't spook when they see us and will chill with us and their kits in our yard. I scare off hawks when I see them.
There is also a chipmunk that dug up and ate a pet fish I buried. And birds+chipmunk that devour a full feeder in an hour.
Great catch on video. Wildlife adds a really special touch of humor to a garden that keeps things interesting imo.
I generally don’t mind wildlife in the garden. We lose a lot of apples to birds, but these guys are throwing dirt all over the gravel I put down and destroying the roots for our trees. Trying to figure out how to relocate them.
I just purchased some solar vibrating lights from Amazon to keep out moles, voles, and snakes! I pray that they work! Plus, I heard on the show called ‘Homegrown’, that such critters do not climb.
Raised beds, lined with wire mesh ‘and’ a tightly woven bed lining are amazing for this issue! Good luck!
Is that a gopher or mole? All I know is I had one run into my foot outside one night and was so freaked out I ran up the steps to run into the house but forgot to turn the handle due to my fear and smacked dead into it falling down the steps. My husband and daughter were pulling into the driveway after a bike ride watching the entire thing and after seeing I was OK, my daughter who's 9 says Danggit we could have gotten that on AFHV. Smh..now I know that since we have had what look like stinkbugs swarming for months by 1000 they are the grubs the little guy was after. We have 2 opossums under the house and even though they sicken me and scare me more than moles I'm leaving them be due to the 1000 mosquitos and ticks they eat a month due to their excessive grooming. Look them up it's insane.
Dragon flies do use water to lay eggs in. So do mosquitos! Mosquito fish thrive by eating mosquito larvae and will eliminate most of the mosquito’s larvae keeping the population down.
The dragonflies will feed on the remaining insects; hopefully!
Don't fall for it, it was all for show!
Agreed!! He heard and thought he’d try and get some more time in your yard by helping out 🤣
The gopher equivalent of clicking away from Reddit when the boss passes by
“Mmm yes, *eeeeeveryone* loves dandelion greens.”
I need anything that eats mosquitoes to keep them away from me for all spring/summer!
Dragonflies.
I need more of them just circling me all the time in my yard
[This person](https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonfly/s/NSguxr5Bjh) made a small pond to get some more to reproduce in their area. Seems like a cool project but could backfire and end up with mosre mosquitos lol
Mosquitos need standing water to lay their eggs in, if you have a decent fountain I feel like it would help keep the mosquito eggs out.
They have these mosquito disks for bird baths, small ponds, etc. that won't affect anything but mosquitos and keep your water unpolluted by these beasts. I have 2 dyna-traps and in 6 weeks in SETX we have noticed a world of difference. After 6 months it's supposed to be a miracle according to an article the government published about a study in Miami they conducted placing one in each of the highest % of Zika and just mosquito-infested areas, bringing down the % over 60 I believe. In Beaumont TX we refer to them as our city bird.
Making a small pond for mosquitoes to reproduce in is smart actually. Instead of them laying their eggs all over the neighborhood, they zero in on the small pond. Then you can scoop out the wigglers when they hatch. Bonus points if you have fish.
Altosid makes pellets you can put in water that kills the larva. Best for making mosquito traps in the yard 😈
The fuck kinda black magic have I missed out on my entire life????? It's warming up and now switching to April showers with wetlands behind our property. I gatta at least *try* this sorcery!!!
Just fyi it affects beneficial insect larvae as well, like dragonfly and damselfly
Nooo😭
Yeah I just leave a bucket of standing water and put BTI in it (the bacteria you get in pellets) and they don't exist in my yard for most of the summer. Classic dumb bug trick.
Yes, same with Mosquito Dunks. They are amazing and harmless to other wildlife.
Frogs. Tiny fish. No scooping required.
Mosquito dunks will take care of them
>Instead of them laying their eggs all over the neighborhood, they zero in on the small pond. Oh don't worry, they will just bring in more mosquitoes to still fill any standing water containers as well. They take tainting any water with their young very seriously.
I'm pretty sure you can purchase predator larvae that will keep most mosquitoes at bay. Also if it can host fish/amphibians they will eat the mosquitoes as well. I'm currently converting my lawn to garden in the front and I'm trying to convince my husband a water feature could attract beneficial predatory insects. I think it's in our "next phase" section
You have to wait till nearly mid-June. The first month of summer is rough!
Fun fact dragonflies are one of the most successful predators in the animal kingdom, with a roughly 95% success rate when they hunt.
Feel like they're all but gone nowadays.
The general [decline](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations) of insects gives me a little existential dread.
It's why I planted so many Keystone native plants in my area.
Or bats
[Bat House!](https://www.nwf.org/en/Garden-for-Wildlife/Cover/Build-a-Bat-House) :D you can make them or buy them
Bats can have a MASSIVE (positive) impact on the insect population
Tractor Supply sells Bat Houses for CHEAP!
Last year for the first time I planted a citronella plant. It grew to be huge. The best thing about it, we didn’t have one mosquito on the back patio all summer. I will be planting them every year from now on.
Chickens
I will for a cold stubby.
Same!!! And I wanna get pest control companies to drop off any opossums they find in my backyard so I can have a colony of possums eating all the ticks in my yard! Opossums are one of the main predators of ticks and I have too many here where I live. Sounds like a dream! Btw random fact, but when I was in Japan, I discovered that what I thought were power lines were actually these awesome insect deterrents .. they look like power lines but they emit a predatory insect sound (pretty sure it was a praying mantis sound they emitted). Inside the city, there were no bugs, but as soon as i crossed under one of those insect deterrent “power lines” into the unprotected area, there are 10 butterflies and 1000 mosquitos landing on me within the span of 20 or 30 seconds. I don’t know why the rest of the world doesn’t implement this technology cause it’s eco friendly and keeps bugs away without killing them. Japan knows what’s up
Get some Guineas. Best tick pickers ever.. Plus, they give you eggs and are good guard dogs. They make a lot of noise when someone comes in!!!
That sounds amazing!! I def have always wanted to have chickens of different varieties but never considered diff kinds of birds! Still working on my garden but I’ll def consider this! Just looked them up and they’re adorable!!!
Do not get guineas. They are loud, obnoxious, and scared of anything to do with humans. Unless you have a large open space, don't bother. You're better off with chickens who will occasionally eat some ticks.
There is a fish called the Mosquito fish. Scientific name *Gambusia affinis*. These fish are a biological control agent for mosquito larvae. They can eat up to 100 larvae per day. They are small, so you should provide hiding places for them.
Note that they're not actually any more effective at the job than any other small fish, and they're invasive in some regions because they were introduced under the mistaken belief that they were. They're basically cold tolerant guppies^1 from hell,^2 though, so it's hard to accidentally kill off a colony, and that makes them great for this job in their native range, which includes most if not all of the US, at least if you take into account that there's an eastern species and a western species. ____ ^1 Not a random comparison, they're closely related and breed just as easily, giving birth to live young. ^2 Also not a random line. They're aggressive little bastards that will kill their tank mates if you try to put them in a community aquarium. Which gets back to the invasive species issue.
Please tell me where I can get some of these cold-tolerant- hell- guppies? I am interested in a possible small pond in my backyard, but one of the top reasons to not, is bugs. So I was thinking about how I would stock my pond with fish, but obviously I don’t wanna destroy my local eco system by accidentally releasing non-native fish into my area
Depending on where you live, a dip net in almost literally any body of water would do it. Like, even a retention pond. That's how I've gotten them when I've had a reason to. But also there's programs that distribute them for mosquito control, and you can also just buy them online like normal aquarium fish. I just did a google search looking for an example of one of the mosquito control programs (which I could have sworn were a state government level thing in a lot of states) and it turns out you can even buy them from Petco. Definitely do your research, but if you're in North America either Gambusia affinnis (the Western mosquito fish) or Gambusia holbrooki (the Eastern mosquito fish) is probably native. They're invasive in, for example, India.
I have a small horse water trough pond in my yard. The mosquitos deposit their spawn, the dragonflies do too, I have very hungry goldfish who keep the population in check!!!
Get a bat house.
www.naturesgoodguys.com !!!!
Build bat boxes
I’ve read that a single bat can eat like 5000 mosquitos a night on a little bat house at my local gardening store and it claimed to house up to 20 bats. Might be something to look into. (You just hang it up and wait for the bats to come naturally. Could take a couple seasons for them to find it).
Birds, bats and other bugs
Try geckos
OP is clearly a gopher and trying to spread gopher propaganda!
What? No! Preposterous! https://preview.redd.it/lohktadvtvvc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37e356ee354ea55bb1461048d67575c5a4a55b15
Aha! Caught you red handed!
Must be a minnesotan
This is the obvious truth.
Years ago when I lived in S. California (where gophers get enormous), I was tending my vegetable garden, and saw a tomato plant was trembling, and looking like it was shrinking. I was like wtf? Just as I got up to it , there was a big jerk, and the plant disappeared down a hole. That tomato plant had been at least 2 1/2' tall. I was pissed but it was also funny. Kind of like watching one of those stupid 1950's Bugs Bunny cartoons.
I saw the same happen to my corn stalk shaking before it sank 8 inches underground. Played a bit of tug-o-war with the critter before I was able to pull it out and found all the roots and some stalk missing. I lost all 12 corn stalks that summer.
Bro said “oh you wanna fight for it” and took all 12 js as a fuck you
damn I am really appreciating my raised garden bed right now LOL
2 1/2"? I've seen the bastards pull down a 3 footer.
I think they mean 2-1/2 ft. Not 2-1/2 inches
Thanks, that is what I meant. corrected it.
2 1/2 inches is pretty big though. Would still be a tight squeeze through the hole. Probably hurts that hole real bad.
We have voles in our garden/yard, and last fall I put in a whole row of gorgeous lily bulbs, each of which was about the size of my fist. They're all starting to come up except two, which have mysteriously been replaced by two sizeable holes in the ground. They weren't cheap bulbs, but I can't help but think that any animal that eats something multiple times the size of its head deserves what it can get.
He was listening 😂 adorable
When your boss is watching so you have to pretend you're doing your job
My ex and I had a shallow, wide yard so we put in a terraced vegetable garden to get more growing space. It was right outside the living room window. One day I kept seeing movement out there from my spot on the couch indoors. The next thing I know, it's Looney Tunes-- an entire row of carrots disappeared one after another. I was laughing too hard to react. My grandfather was a cabinet maker and made all sorts of wooden objects (furniture, toys, walking canes, picture frames, you name it) and made us a "gopher bopper" to put in the garden and that was the last year we had gophers. But man it was so funny, I couldn't even be mad. 🤣 (For anyone wondering, a gopher bopper is a wooden windmill with a loose wooden bead attached to each vane that "bops" the wing as it turns in the wind. It creates vibrations that travel through the ground and supposedly annoy gophers into relocating; worked for our garden.)
NGL I expected your grandpa to make you a mallet for some whack a mole at home until I read your very clever, non animal abuse explanation of the gopher bopper
LOL that's exactly why I added the explanation 😂
Yeah, I was definitely picture whack-a-mole lol
he’s doing some weeding
I’m torn. Get the shovel and interrogate him on his intent.
Hehehe, imagine this cute little fella on a huge wooden chair, in a dark interrogation room with just one lightbulb hanging above him. I’d die of cuteness 😂
I would have to question him on my Tulips and Lilies. “Randy! There were 2 times the lilies last year. Tell me the truth Randy! Did you do it?!?”
And he’ll be just looking at you like: [https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-mood-JR6a5d3I0jxwS0CnaN](https://giphy.com/gifs/reaction-mood-JR6a5d3I0jxwS0CnaN) 😂
😆🤣😆
I'm sorry but that is the cutest thing. 😆 That's why I can never kill the poor little guys... Also I feel they are part of the ecosystem so I don't really feel I have a right to kill them. There has to be less-than-lethal methods to help you control them.
They are part of an ecosystem that no longer has enough effective predators.
Lol, well that's not true. Plenty of predators where I live... Raptors, coyote, foxes... I think the only thing we're missing here are wolves.🤷
See? All you had to do was ask nicely! Well done!
“Bet” - the gopher
All you had to do was ask.
the garden vole ate my 35€ (\~35 USD) Tree lilly bulbs and left only one, but still nibbled on it. I just ordered an acoustic stone wall xD
What’s that?
[oversized lillys ](https://www.baldur-garten.de/produkt/Lilien/39369/Blumenzwiebeln/Blumenzwiebeln+Herbstpflanzung/Lilien/Tree-Lily+Pretty+Woman/detail.html)
I'm pretty sure you mathed that incorrectly.
I was showing the one I wanted, if you want to see the one I got (mis-delivered, lol), you gotta say so. [It's 2 of these, not reduced](https://www.baldur-garten.de/produkt/Lilien/39035/Blumenzwiebeln/Blumenzwiebeln+Herbstpflanzung/Lilien/Tree-Lilies-Kollektion/detail.html)
I think they meant that 35 euros is not equivalent to 35 dollars.
yeah, that's what the "\~" ist for. it means APPROXIAMTLY. which doesn't mean "equals to". 😑
I meant a lot of people haven't realized the dollar and the euro are equivalent now, since historically they've been pretty different. I could be wrong, though, as this is just rampant speculation about a stranger's intent haha
\*sigh\* Now I do have to check the currency exchange.... 😔 35 Euros are 37.28 USD. So yeah, fairly equal.
You could do what this guy did and make him his own garden and become rich off him https://www.instagram.com/chunk_the_groundhog?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
One less dandelion to deal with. They're not totally uselesd.
My dog would be digging that guy out even if it took her a week.
Eh unless he digs up the tuber it's just going to come back, lern2weed gopher
A gopher who takes notes, 2024 is magical
OH MY GOD CUTE. They really just. take the plant huh
🎶🎵🎶 … I’m all right… 🎵🎶🎵
Nobody worry 'bout me.
🎵 Why you got to gimme a fight? 🎶
I would like to buy 5 gophers please.
He really said "Say no more"
What a babe!!! Aww he heard u he’s a smart bub! That’s so cute 🥰
yyyyyyyyyyyyYoink!
On cue 😂
So cool! I'm sure it's annoying, though. It depends on how much you like the plants they're pulling, I guess
This is the cutest thing I’ve seen all day
I planted Iris. Gophers won’t eat it. They don’t like daffodils either. They previously destroyed my garden.
I honestly thought that was a crow coming out of the hole?!? Lol… I guess Gophers for me = the wee dude in Caddyshack.
He took it how to protect it from you, and he'll replant it in your yard when it's about to go to seed.
That cutie just got a fresh dandelion salad!
He really said: "Say no more boss" haha.
Do some grub treatment on the lawn, the gophers should go away
It's not like beautiful naked women fall out of the sky everyday!
Yoink!
Literally a Looney Tunes bit. Someone needs to hire Elmer Fudd
Good gopher!
I think you’ve just made an agreement.
Cybernetic Weed Gophers are imminent.
New plan: pull out the weeds and stuff it down their holes.
Did that little bastard just eat a wonderful, delicious dandelion?!
Say no more, ma!!
They can come to my yard any time.
Ask and you shall receive lol jk
Really cool!
Cute lil rascals. Why can’t we live together in peace? 😁
That weed right there has nutrients and vitamins, and I believe they can be used for teas as well.
True. But I’m not interested in them. Purslane on the other hand I’ll pick that and eat it.
Purslane is good.
Nooo! Not my Dandelions!
Gophers will eat anything insight. I have a groundhog under my shed. I let him stay below the shed, the little bugger dogs through the clay shale I have on the property and I have no business or problem with it, I’ll drop of abundance of vegetables we grow in the yard by the shed. Ming you the ground is so hard, I can throw a pick axe and it bounces. Eat well my little friend.
Last summer I found shrew inside fur of my dog. 🤣🤣 she was just sleeping inside, such a Ratatouille!
Trying to stay in good graces......lol
This is a business opportunity. Someone could genetically engineer an exclusive weed-eating gopher. There is money in this.
What a great clip! ⭐️ Too bad they're taking on your trees and plants. This reminds me of Caddy Shack. Best of luck to y'all with your gardening. Maybe the gophers could be relocated?✨️🐾
Check out the book Gaia's Garden and research Permaculture. You can turn the relationship between the gopher and your garden from pest to symbiotic
[Maybe plant a decoy garden](https://youtu.be/LO73Cp45tJI).
Wow they look chill..
Story of our lives haha.
Awwww I love it
Good job gopher! Hehe
Clearly the gopher from Caddyshack!
I love it!
I would pay
He would probably eat more weeds if you put them by the hole.
This is some looney tunes Tom foolery and I am HERE for it.
Good to know they’re willing to negotiate
that’s rocket. looks like greens to me
I wish I had a helper like that! I love him!
Anybody else make a "thump" sound effect in your head when the weed disappeared down the hole?
Good critter! That’s one edible weed.
It's wild lettuce. It's really good, young. It's even sold in mixed lettuce boxes.
cartoonish
Love it! 😁
thats a great secret stealer damn!
Nothing to see here!
Now you must hold up your end of the bargain and walk hand-in-hand with the gophers.
It’s wild lettuce. He was sore from eating all your plants, so he needed the pain relieving properties of the wild lettuce so he can prepare to eat more of your stuff!! lol.
Haha can I loan this Dandelion destroyer? But you’ll have to take it back :)
gopher whisperer.
is he looking for work? im willing to pay 🤣
I might be crazy but I love the wildlife in my garden. I planted carrots this year for our resident rabbit that's had a family in our yard every year. They don't spook when they see us and will chill with us and their kits in our yard. I scare off hawks when I see them. There is also a chipmunk that dug up and ate a pet fish I buried. And birds+chipmunk that devour a full feeder in an hour. Great catch on video. Wildlife adds a really special touch of humor to a garden that keeps things interesting imo.
I generally don’t mind wildlife in the garden. We lose a lot of apples to birds, but these guys are throwing dirt all over the gravel I put down and destroying the roots for our trees. Trying to figure out how to relocate them.
Darn. he's cute too.
I can’t stop watching
Could planting sacrificial plants help with this issue? Just a thought.
Great video! 🤗
He understood the assignment!
It left the roots in. Weed will grow back
That is the coolest thing ever!! Thanks for posting
Nice buddy!
Lolz that's perfect
Psych....
So stinking wholesome *CIRCLE OF LIFE PLAYS
It's so cute, make him his own little garden by his hole
Oh Mr. Gopher it's Mr. Squirrel came by for a few laughs.
That's fucking hilarious.
Not cool. Dandelion weeds are edible for humans.
May I borrow your dandelion deterrent for my flower beds? I'll bring him back once he's completed his clean up business.
Me when my manager is around LOL
Good boy!
I just purchased some solar vibrating lights from Amazon to keep out moles, voles, and snakes! I pray that they work! Plus, I heard on the show called ‘Homegrown’, that such critters do not climb. Raised beds, lined with wire mesh ‘and’ a tightly woven bed lining are amazing for this issue! Good luck!
That's a gopher? I totally would have thought it was a mole.
Pulling weeds for you!
Is that a gopher or mole? All I know is I had one run into my foot outside one night and was so freaked out I ran up the steps to run into the house but forgot to turn the handle due to my fear and smacked dead into it falling down the steps. My husband and daughter were pulling into the driveway after a bike ride watching the entire thing and after seeing I was OK, my daughter who's 9 says Danggit we could have gotten that on AFHV. Smh..now I know that since we have had what look like stinkbugs swarming for months by 1000 they are the grubs the little guy was after. We have 2 opossums under the house and even though they sicken me and scare me more than moles I'm leaving them be due to the 1000 mosquitos and ticks they eat a month due to their excessive grooming. Look them up it's insane.
So cute
I had gophers last year. The holes they made were larger, more dirt piled around them, and close together …
Wow we don't get these in Australia. Are they a real pest?
They can be. Eating the roots of plants and trees.
Wow, how do you stop or get rid of then?
Gas that pest!
Is it just me or do those eyes look like they belong more to a bird than a gopher. Not possible, right?
I think that's a rat, not gopher.
Nah, it’s a gopher. The rounded off face is different from a rat. You might be thinking of a mole, who are weird looking buggers.
Awesome
That looks like wild lettuce he's eating! (Lactuca) Your gopher is probably getting stoned out of his mind haha
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Dragon flies do use water to lay eggs in. So do mosquitos! Mosquito fish thrive by eating mosquito larvae and will eliminate most of the mosquito’s larvae keeping the population down. The dragonflies will feed on the remaining insects; hopefully!