Posts Tagged: pocket gophers
Got Gophers?
Gophers are well-known and certainly unwelcome pests in landscapes, gardens, lawns, and athletic...
Adult pocket gopher peeking out of a burrow entrance. [Credit: T. Chalmers]
Characteristic crescent-shaped mound and plugged burrow opening of a pocket gopher. [Credit: Jack Kelly Clark]
Gophers.
By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County If you live in one of...
Pocket gopher (UC ANR)
Gopher mound. Note the crescent shape and round 'plug' in the center. (UC ANR)
Gopher mounds in turf. If you have gophers, you have seen this! (UC ANR)
Pocket gopher in tunnel (UC ANR)
Gopher burrow illustration. All those round shapes are gopher mounds. (Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Leave a few inches above ground (You Tube)
From UC IPM, EVERYTHING you need to know about pocket gophers, including videos: http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7433.html (UC IPM)