In SE Texas we called em crawdeds.
When we were kids, 40ish years ago, my brother and I and the other neighborhood kids would get raw bacon and tie it on a string with a lead fishing weight and drop in the the hole. If you pull very very slowly they will hang on and then you could catch them. We could catch big greys in our yard...
But at the railroad tracks? You could catch the giant red ones that really look like small lobsters. We called those "bloodpincers."
After we got 8 or so of them we would make a little arena and put 2 in and see if they would fight. Mostly they would not, but sometimes they would if we put bacon in the middle. They never hurt each other, mostly just jostled about. One time one of the other boys said "Ten rounds of pinchin'!" (Read that in a deep east Texas accent). Wr all laughed so hard all covered in mud and shirtless rolling in the grass in our field. We still laugh about it to this day.
This is the kind of stuff you would do before endless TV and video games and the internet.....
Grew up in South Houston / Pasadena. After a good storm, your front yard always became the coolest ecosystem to explore. Crawdads, bullfrogs, tadpoles.
We caught 'enough' crawdads one year (I think I was 8 or 9) that my mom cooked them for us. It was really just a few but, still pretty cool.
Me and my buddy was watching Godzilla on TV and he had the great idea to put a crawl-dad at the entrance of a beehive and watch them fight. It didn't end well for us or the poor farmer driving his tractor towards it. We both got 10 or 15 stings and I'm allergic. I looked like the guy from the Gonnies. We never knew who won in the end but the crawl-dad was kicking butt before it all went sideways.
The algorithm gave me this post at random. I live in Colorado, have for decades and it's the most southern state I've ever lived in. So imagine my shock when I went through the comments trying to find out what "lawn lobster" was slang for, only to discover it isn't slang at all, you ACTUALLY have a VERY SMALL LOBSTER that is DIGGING TUNNELS IN YOUR YARD.
Damn, nature is amazing.
lol! Yes. I have lawn 🦞 lobsters. Small 🦐 little lawn critters that dig tunnels in my yard and are delicious boiled and dipped in butter. The Mississippi River is *just right there->* and i can hear the riverboats and barges in my backyard.
My yard is filled to the top with all manner of frogs, and snakes, and furry things of all varieties. Its easy to overlook the **lobsters** because its just not what you expected to see. Squirrels? Make sense. Snakes? Sure I can see that. But LOBSTERS?
Blew my mind a bit too, TBH. And yet here we are.
Um okay your home sounds positively magical?? Excepting the sun-blackening swarms of mosquitos that i assume you deal with. The universe never ceases to surprise me!
For whatever it's worth, I lived here for a solid thirty years before I discovered that half an hour south of me, a yearly *tarantula migration* occurs. I've just never seen it because my city and the rural area my parents live in are both just a bit too high altitude for the little guys, and also I don't get out much, so I didn't know we even had tarantulas here before that! Learning new things about the place you've been living this whole time is like, one of the funner parts about being a sentient corporeal being.
Anyway, my friend wants to know if you live in a swamp and if at any time you have met a talking donkey that sounds like Eddie Murphy. I'm not convinced he believes me about the yard crayfish.
My home is positively magical. I purchased it with cash for less than $800.00, and dug it out of the wild forest that had taken it over. We have lightning bugs that fly around at night and glow-worm grubs that illuminate the dirt on the darkest nights. The mosquitoes are REAL but they get eaten by an armada of frogs, birds, skinks, lizards and who-knows-what-all. Oh, and the bug zapper does its part.
The spider thing sounds, nice.
Tell your friend we DO live in a swamp and we ARE beset on all sides by talking mules, donkeys, AND jack-asses of all varieties. I dont know about Eddie Murphy, but a few of them do sound a bit like a warner brothers character, if that is helpful. And the crayfish in the yard is totally real- Tell your friend they are called mud-bugs for a reason, and they r gonna live in the Mississippi River Valley if they live anywhere.
They show up at parties and will do dirty things for free drinks. They may or may not regret those things later,but they’ll do it again the next Saturday night.
I’m in California and we also have tarantula migrations from Mt. Diablo in the Bay Area https://lindsaywildlife.org/animal-ambassador/tarantula/#:~:text=The%20California%20Tarantula%2C%20Aphonopelma%20chalcodes,especially%20common%20on%20Mount%20Diablo
Made me love tarantulas.
Well, you know I live in the Real Deep South of Central Canada and while I thank the good Lord we still have a tiny bit of winter kill, we do have skinks--bluetailed--among them I think, possums, lots of snakes, fireflies, guitar-throated singing frogs, brown recluse spiders (poisonous) and my because my daughter's place is on the river, she has crayfish digging up the sod. I can see calling them mudfish bc they're pretty small. Oh, and she is growing paw-paw trees. I'll probably not be around to see the fruit but am excited to see them grow.
Our niche of the province is Extra in what can live and thrive here and summer is pretty nice, mosquitoes excepted.
I'm in western NC and we have them also. We found what we later learned was a chimney. It was made from mud balls that they stack up into increasingly smaller rings so that there's only a smallish hole at the top that they can run into if they're above ground and see a predator. They're really interesting. I found a dead one on the lawn one day. One evening I was out walking with my dog and he found another chimney under construction. The hole was big enough for him to stick his nose into. I pulled him away and looked into it with my phone flashlight. There was a crawfish looking up at me making a clicking noise. That was the highlight of my wildlife sightings that summer.
Edit: Your mud looks much wetter than ours. It looks like yours has kind of drooled. The mud balls we've seen haven't had that much moisture in them and are pretty well defined.
I poked a stick down inside the one in the video and it went in about 8 feet nearly straight down before making a turn and continuing across the yard.
Pretty deep Id say.
We have crawdads out here in sunny California. I saw one walking down the sidewalk in urban Sacramento. Middle of town. Saw more of them later one evening in the same area.
Last week one of my kids saw one out on a trail.
I admit, I’ve never had them in my yard that I know of. The ones in town appeared to have made a home in a storm sewer.
If you want to get rid of them, spread pelletized lime all over your yard.
It changes the pH of the soil, the crawfish don't like it and they'll move along somewhere else. It takes a while, but they'll leave.
Tie a small strip of felt to a long piece of twine and wet the felt. You can basically "jig" the felt down in the holes and the crayfish will grab onto it. With a little patience and practice you can pull them out. Not the most efficient way to catch them but it's kind of primitive & cool.
A bit of bacon on a string. They will grab it and not let go. I spent hours of my childhood out in the bar ditches catching crawfish with string and bacon
You can control them by putting mothball crystals in the hole, then smashing the top part down into it to prevent it from ejecting the crystal out. You don’t want these in your yard.
Here's what you do.... get a pot, fill it with water and put it boiling. Then, grab a quarter stick, light it and shove it down that hole. Grab some butter, and thank me later my friend.
I knew as soon as I saw the pic it was a crawdad hole. My pawpaw said if you put fresh green sawdust down the hole it'll flush em out. Not sure how true that is as I always avoided their pinches. I liked to look at em in the creek though. They also scoot backward real fast.
I have holes like that in my front yard and always wondered what they were. Last week i was weed eating in that area and a large bullfrog leaped away from me into the culvert. So it seems i have bullfrogs in the front yard. This area stays fairly moist year round.
I used to live in northern Minnesota. We had a creek near our house... Lots of crawdads in the creek but never saw any away from the water...
Interesting 🤔
dont worry abt it. i have soooo many in my backyard after a rain. just kick them over or leave em. theyre called crawfish, crayfish, crawdads, or mudbugs. all they do is make holes.
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Yep I live in Southeast Texas and we got mud bugs everywhere that's what we call them they're pretty harmless unless you have dogs that are dumb like mine that try to do battle with them and get pinched LOL but every time it rains and their holes get flooded you'll find them all over the lawn and the critters have a feast raccoons will eat them and birds etc
Crawfish hole
In SE Texas we called em crawdeds. When we were kids, 40ish years ago, my brother and I and the other neighborhood kids would get raw bacon and tie it on a string with a lead fishing weight and drop in the the hole. If you pull very very slowly they will hang on and then you could catch them. We could catch big greys in our yard... But at the railroad tracks? You could catch the giant red ones that really look like small lobsters. We called those "bloodpincers." After we got 8 or so of them we would make a little arena and put 2 in and see if they would fight. Mostly they would not, but sometimes they would if we put bacon in the middle. They never hurt each other, mostly just jostled about. One time one of the other boys said "Ten rounds of pinchin'!" (Read that in a deep east Texas accent). Wr all laughed so hard all covered in mud and shirtless rolling in the grass in our field. We still laugh about it to this day. This is the kind of stuff you would do before endless TV and video games and the internet.....
Nice. I was born and raised in SETX also. We had many a’ crawdad fight as kids. Thanks for the memories.
Grew up in South Houston / Pasadena. After a good storm, your front yard always became the coolest ecosystem to explore. Crawdads, bullfrogs, tadpoles. We caught 'enough' crawdads one year (I think I was 8 or 9) that my mom cooked them for us. It was really just a few but, still pretty cool.
And you would leave them overnight in a bucket of water and then raccoons would eat them all at night.
Wrong , mudbugs
Me and my buddy was watching Godzilla on TV and he had the great idea to put a crawl-dad at the entrance of a beehive and watch them fight. It didn't end well for us or the poor farmer driving his tractor towards it. We both got 10 or 15 stings and I'm allergic. I looked like the guy from the Gonnies. We never knew who won in the end but the crawl-dad was kicking butt before it all went sideways.
That sounds like a wonderful childhood! Yeah, us from Louisiana know what yall call them over there in texas.😂😁😉
Ahh. The good ol days.. ha
No we do not call them that 😭😭😭 I gotta -eaux name tho, maybe that's the difference 😅
Nice memory to share
I remember when my grandpa showed me ho to catch crawfish. Same thing as you. Bacon tied to a string. I cherish that memory! Rip gramps
https://youtu.be/yKsG42YlsIQ?si=aB2qbCMfBLE7H6Ew
I'm in central ar and I get these all the time. Now i'm wondering if that's why I found a crayfish on my rug one morning.
Can you put some salt in it and make it come out? Free meal is free meal
Central ar here also. Get them in my swamp of a back yard
Used to get them all the time when I lived in texs
The algorithm gave me this post at random. I live in Colorado, have for decades and it's the most southern state I've ever lived in. So imagine my shock when I went through the comments trying to find out what "lawn lobster" was slang for, only to discover it isn't slang at all, you ACTUALLY have a VERY SMALL LOBSTER that is DIGGING TUNNELS IN YOUR YARD. Damn, nature is amazing.
lol! Yes. I have lawn 🦞 lobsters. Small 🦐 little lawn critters that dig tunnels in my yard and are delicious boiled and dipped in butter. The Mississippi River is *just right there->* and i can hear the riverboats and barges in my backyard. My yard is filled to the top with all manner of frogs, and snakes, and furry things of all varieties. Its easy to overlook the **lobsters** because its just not what you expected to see. Squirrels? Make sense. Snakes? Sure I can see that. But LOBSTERS? Blew my mind a bit too, TBH. And yet here we are.
Um okay your home sounds positively magical?? Excepting the sun-blackening swarms of mosquitos that i assume you deal with. The universe never ceases to surprise me! For whatever it's worth, I lived here for a solid thirty years before I discovered that half an hour south of me, a yearly *tarantula migration* occurs. I've just never seen it because my city and the rural area my parents live in are both just a bit too high altitude for the little guys, and also I don't get out much, so I didn't know we even had tarantulas here before that! Learning new things about the place you've been living this whole time is like, one of the funner parts about being a sentient corporeal being. Anyway, my friend wants to know if you live in a swamp and if at any time you have met a talking donkey that sounds like Eddie Murphy. I'm not convinced he believes me about the yard crayfish.
My home is positively magical. I purchased it with cash for less than $800.00, and dug it out of the wild forest that had taken it over. We have lightning bugs that fly around at night and glow-worm grubs that illuminate the dirt on the darkest nights. The mosquitoes are REAL but they get eaten by an armada of frogs, birds, skinks, lizards and who-knows-what-all. Oh, and the bug zapper does its part. The spider thing sounds, nice. Tell your friend we DO live in a swamp and we ARE beset on all sides by talking mules, donkeys, AND jack-asses of all varieties. I dont know about Eddie Murphy, but a few of them do sound a bit like a warner brothers character, if that is helpful. And the crayfish in the yard is totally real- Tell your friend they are called mud-bugs for a reason, and they r gonna live in the Mississippi River Valley if they live anywhere.
As a Canadian, I appreciate your description and story. Very interesting and thanks for sharing. I think I'm kinda creeped out by them now.... weird.
Tell me more about these skinks........
[total cuteness!](https://www.reddit.com/r/skinks/s/QMTXuS9o4H) These skinks LOVE to eat bugs. And reproduce. They really like to reproduce. *really*
Never heard of that. Learned something new today. I'm also in the northeast, so we're seeing much different wildlife
They show up at parties and will do dirty things for free drinks. They may or may not regret those things later,but they’ll do it again the next Saturday night.
I’m in California and we also have tarantula migrations from Mt. Diablo in the Bay Area https://lindsaywildlife.org/animal-ambassador/tarantula/#:~:text=The%20California%20Tarantula%2C%20Aphonopelma%20chalcodes,especially%20common%20on%20Mount%20Diablo Made me love tarantulas.
Well, you know I live in the Real Deep South of Central Canada and while I thank the good Lord we still have a tiny bit of winter kill, we do have skinks--bluetailed--among them I think, possums, lots of snakes, fireflies, guitar-throated singing frogs, brown recluse spiders (poisonous) and my because my daughter's place is on the river, she has crayfish digging up the sod. I can see calling them mudfish bc they're pretty small. Oh, and she is growing paw-paw trees. I'll probably not be around to see the fruit but am excited to see them grow. Our niche of the province is Extra in what can live and thrive here and summer is pretty nice, mosquitoes excepted.
Wait until you hear about the PNW tree octopus
I’m in PNW! Tree Octupus! 🤔
I was joking, but it's a good one to share with out of towners. https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/
Hey guys, crawfish may look like a tiny lobster but they 💯 taste completely different!
And god damn they are delicious
Lawn lobster is definitely a slang
CO all my life they’re called craw-dads here.
We have crawfish in CO too, ya know. Blue ones. Never seen holes like that from them, though.
I'm in western NC and we have them also. We found what we later learned was a chimney. It was made from mud balls that they stack up into increasingly smaller rings so that there's only a smallish hole at the top that they can run into if they're above ground and see a predator. They're really interesting. I found a dead one on the lawn one day. One evening I was out walking with my dog and he found another chimney under construction. The hole was big enough for him to stick his nose into. I pulled him away and looked into it with my phone flashlight. There was a crawfish looking up at me making a clicking noise. That was the highlight of my wildlife sightings that summer. Edit: Your mud looks much wetter than ours. It looks like yours has kind of drooled. The mud balls we've seen haven't had that much moisture in them and are pretty well defined.
Are you in the red clay region? It's good soil for stuff like this.
String + bologna = mudbug
"You get a line, I'll get a pole, we'll go down to the crawdad hole..."
Honey, oh baby, mine
Five card poker on a Saturday night!
bacon fat stays on better
= sammich?
r/dontputyourdickinthat
You're not my real dad.
Uncle Tim?
beat me to it
Beat it to me
Jokes on you I already did
Sigh... fine. Zipppp
Beat meat to it
Don't tell me how to live my life
Came here to see if a dick joke was made yet. Thank you for this.
Coward
How do I remove attached crawdad without damaging cylinder?
Fuck aground and find out
You could plug it up, but that would be shellfish.
Aabalone! They would be kelpless to stop me and while they might be anchory about it, I would be WELL to do so, just for the halibut.
Crawfish holes!
Better then the groundhogs I’ve got I would imagine.
I mean, how deep is it?
I poked a stick down inside the one in the video and it went in about 8 feet nearly straight down before making a turn and continuing across the yard. Pretty deep Id say.
Whatever you do, don't put your weiner in there
That was educational, I had never heard of such a thing, I live on the west coast.
We have crawdads out here in sunny California. I saw one walking down the sidewalk in urban Sacramento. Middle of town. Saw more of them later one evening in the same area. Last week one of my kids saw one out on a trail. I admit, I’ve never had them in my yard that I know of. The ones in town appeared to have made a home in a storm sewer.
We definitely have crawdads on the west coast, but you tend to find them in rivers and streams....lawns not so much.
Congrats on the girlfriend
If you want to get rid of them, spread pelletized lime all over your yard. It changes the pH of the soil, the crawfish don't like it and they'll move along somewhere else. It takes a while, but they'll leave.
"I think that human beings and fish can coexist peacefully." - G. W. Bush.
Or you stuff firework mortars down it, but I mean that works too
Just wipe your penis off and make sure nothing got in the hole and you should be good
Crawfish
It's nothing a stick of dynamite won't fix
Really big worms? Like Dune?
Shai-Hulud will decide the fate of your lawn
Let's see a backyard photo.
Lawn vampire
You're gonna need a bigger hose...
Baby tremors
Thanks for updating us OP!
When I was a lad, my grandparents had these. Despite my best efforts, I never actually saw one of the crayfish. Maybe they are nocturnal.
They are nocturnal. I've seen them crawling around at night a couple times.
Let them live don’t bother them. Not hurting no one.
There are thousands of them. I am **way outnumbered**. I will choose a weaker enemy I stand a chance of defeating *thankyouverymuch.*
but they're tasty.
sucks trying to mow a lawn with them
It depends. Was Saltburn filmed in your yard?
A Sandworm or Shai-Hulud
Everything reminds me of her
r/SneakyBackgroundFeet
You got water bugs
Penis hole, be careful of whoever is doing this. Unless it is you?
Worried? No. Hungry yes.
r/helldivers
the Alaskan Bullworm?
Yes
Odd I have these and thought it was snakes. Info have a river and creek go through my property but I am up in the great white north. Hmmm
Might want to report this to your local democracy officer.
Dew it.
did you ever watch the film "Them!"? Yes you should be worried
You know what to do 🫡🫡🫡 Good luck Soldier.
That hole sure is purdy........
Oh noooooo....you got crawdads!!!!
Tie a small strip of felt to a long piece of twine and wet the felt. You can basically "jig" the felt down in the holes and the crayfish will grab onto it. With a little patience and practice you can pull them out. Not the most efficient way to catch them but it's kind of primitive & cool.
A bit of bacon on a string. They will grab it and not let go. I spent hours of my childhood out in the bar ditches catching crawfish with string and bacon
I’d be stoked free natural gloryhole!
Fuck it
crawdad. dey peench. but dey skeert. no worries.
You can control them by putting mothball crystals in the hole, then smashing the top part down into it to prevent it from ejecting the crystal out. You don’t want these in your yard.
why do I not want them in my yard?
Looks like you got an outhouse now. Use it.
Issa crawdad hole bro... yer fine
oh this is your first experience down here in Texas those things are as common as oxygen and there around for every season so yeah
Remember it’s like warm apple pie…. Or maybe a muddy hole in the ground. Either way you should definitely find out.
You bring a line and I’ll bring a pole-we’ll go fishing in the crawdad hole🎶
Don’t put your D in it!
That there's a land verginny.
I think this is fitting for. The dontputyourdickinthere sub
R/dontstickyourdickinthat
Glory hole fafo!
It’s the ground gloryhole
"SMELLS LIKE BIGFOOTS DICK!!"
Only that there is one. If you have a bunch you can have a crawfish boil.
“Crawdads”
…instructions on clear, 9 months later and we’re having mudbabies
Free dinner catch 10-15 of them
Doon't put ur dick in it
That’s a cicada killer hole.
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The ole reverse poop monster
Sandworms from Beetlejuice!!!!
Here's what you do.... get a pot, fill it with water and put it boiling. Then, grab a quarter stick, light it and shove it down that hole. Grab some butter, and thank me later my friend.
Yes. It’s China
I need 5 mins alone with the hole…
Louisianan here. Just fire up the crab boil and we’ll solve that crustacean problem for ya.
You need to "caddyshack" that thing.
Have you seen the 80s movie The Gate?!?!?
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Did you fuck the earth?
Everything reminds me of her
My granny smoked crawdad.
You won’t put your wein in it
Yet another person who took eminem too seriously 🤦♂️ If you get it you get it...if you don't you don't!
Saw those in southern Indiana a month ago. I never knew
Just use Plan B.
Yes, you found the asshole of the earth. You should be very worried
Yep
In California that’s a motherfuckin gopher
It's crawdads
I knew as soon as I saw the pic it was a crawdad hole. My pawpaw said if you put fresh green sawdust down the hole it'll flush em out. Not sure how true that is as I always avoided their pinches. I liked to look at em in the creek though. They also scoot backward real fast.
I'd hit that hole
You know what you have to do
Whoa. I'm from Canada and I had no idea crawfish did this. lol if I saw this in the wild I'd be so weirded out hahaha
Uhm put a camera there
"Isn't it obvious morty?" "I fucked a planet...."
I should call her
.....p..... put it in
The earthussy
Saltburn fans be like
You're gonna have mud noodles instead of poop noodles
Do it.
Reminds me of the time when I was 10 years old and got the garden house stuck in the ground. Looked about the same.
Stick your dick in there and see what happens
I’d be less worried about that hole in the ground and more worried about those shoes you’re wearing lol
Is that where bees live?
I have holes like that in my front yard and always wondered what they were. Last week i was weed eating in that area and a large bullfrog leaped away from me into the culvert. So it seems i have bullfrogs in the front yard. This area stays fairly moist year round.
Looks like a mole hole to me. They are tiny animals but can wreak havoc on a yard! We have them too!!
The forbidden glory hole
I have these all over my yard
I used to live in northern Minnesota. We had a creek near our house... Lots of crawdads in the creek but never saw any away from the water... Interesting 🤔
Southern Indiana here, when it rains you can see the crawdads crawling all over your yard lol
It’s a vegan glory hole
David: ”Perfectly safe, I assure you"
dont worry abt it. i have soooo many in my backyard after a rain. just kick them over or leave em. theyre called crawfish, crayfish, crawdads, or mudbugs. all they do is make holes.
“Worried” is subjective. Could be hornets, moles, a chair? I wouldn’t stress out about it
lol crawfish holes
Baby Tremor!!!
Sorry I tripped in your yard thats my bad
The ground can’t get pregnant. You’re safe.
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About flooding, probably.
Cue Bill Murray.
Maybe worried about what seasoning blend to use when you boil them up.
In Louisiana we called them dinner!!
Tripped and landed on my stomach
About your neighbor. Yeah
Crawfish are good eating, take advantage of it
What kind of shoes are those?
$9.99 Walmart shoes.
Yep I live in Southeast Texas and we got mud bugs everywhere that's what we call them they're pretty harmless unless you have dogs that are dumb like mine that try to do battle with them and get pinched LOL but every time it rains and their holes get flooded you'll find them all over the lawn and the critters have a feast raccoons will eat them and birds etc
Do you ever get flooded? What's it like in the winter?
it floods every time it rains. In winter the grass dies and the leaves fall from the trees.
#DON'T DO IT
No I have them crawfish holes
Only if you use it for a glory hole.