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Hmmm...perhaps
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I've never heard of these traps...link, by any chance?
Where I live, the countryside is flat as a board, but we do have many cattle ranchers and horses...you'd probably like the Hill Country better than where I'm at...beautiful out there...Big Bend is one of our favorite places to visit
Big Bend National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
There is a place in Far West Texas where night skies are dark as coal and rivers carve temple-like canyons in ancient limestone. Here, at the end of the road, hundreds of bird species take refuge in a solitary mountain range surrounded by weather-beaten desert. Tenacious cactus bloom in sublime...
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I've never heard of these traps...link, by any chance?
Where I live, the countryside is flat as a board, but we do have many cattle ranchers and horses...you'd probably like the Hill Country better than where I'm at...beautiful out there...Big Bend is one of our favorite places to visit
Big Bend National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
There is a place in Far West Texas where night skies are dark as coal and rivers carve temple-like canyons in ancient limestone. Here, at the end of the road, hundreds of bird species take refuge in a solitary mountain range surrounded by weather-beaten desert. Tenacious cactus bloom in sublime...
Have a look at the second thing listed in this article, it's called a pooter, which is kinda adorable.
Found a vid with how to make one, sorry it's aimed at kids! lol. But it'll work if you can find a bit of tubing that fits over the burrow
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Thanks!Have a look at the second thing listed in this article, it's called a pooter, which is kinda adorable.
Found a vid with how to make one, sorry it's aimed at kids! lol. But it'll work if you can find a bit of tubing that fits over the burrow
. Hopefully that thing can filter stuff out?
Are you gonna try to suck that thing out of the ground and look it in its beedy little eyes then?
I dares ya to do it! (ETA: And get photos of it! I need to know now, lol)
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I think I'll give it a go this weekendAre you gonna try to suck that thing out of the ground and look it in its beedy little eyes then?
I dares ya to do it! (ETA: And get photos of it! I need to know now, lol)
I'll certainly report back here if I am successful...
I'm wondering the same thing now! I don't know how baby trapdoor spiders spread out and find their own burrows, maybe it's a baby one, and it's a seasonal thing or something. They'd need to disperse from where they hatched and find/build their own burrows and trapdoors, right? Or maybe mating season, and it's males that are out looking for females. Male spiders are much smaller than females, they tend to hunt for the female rather than her coming to him, and they're shorter lived. Gonna be off researching spiders and burrowing insects now!
The spiders here in the UK that freak me out are house spiders. Bigger. scarier looking, and much faster than most species we have, but they freak me out every August/September. That's their mating season, and it's when the males creep around houses at night, searching for females. Then you discover one that got trapped in the bath, the sink, or hiding on a doorframe, or FALLING FROM THE PICTURE RAILING ONTO MY PILLOW ONE NIGHT AND I ALMOST DIED FROM FRIGHT....
Ahem. Yeah. So I'm a bit scared of spiders. But don't want to be! Because they're cool and really interesting creatures, and I'm not a girly girl who freaks out about snakes or breaking a nail or rodents, whatever. Spiders are my weakness though.
The burrow itself looks like a cicada nest.
That's what my mom thought!
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Much too small to be cicadas, but good guess....the burrows are remarkably symmetrical, as if someone used a power drill to make them
I'll gaze at a patch of dirt in the yard, and it looks as if it is uniform and solid, no holes...then, walk by, or pass my hand over it, and half a dozen holes suddenly appear...kinda creepy, lol
I'll gaze at a patch of dirt in the yard, and it looks as if it is uniform and solid, no holes...then, walk by, or pass my hand over it, and half a dozen holes suddenly appear...kinda creepy, lol
I don't really understand - the holes appear? Are they usually covered in dirt or something?
We don't have cicadas here.
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No....when there's no activity, all of their little heads (or whatever they are) fill the holes, right at the surface...they blend in with the color of the dirt...then, when they are disturbed, they all simultaneously shoot back down under the ground, and the holes "appear"
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These are the critters in question, not cicadas...once cicadas emerge from their holes, they never go back
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Cicadas themselves are fascinating creatures, too
wildlifeinformer.com
The 3 Stages of the Cicada Life Cycle - Wildlife Informer
Periodical cicadas spend many years underground preparing to emerge. In this article we'll learn about the 3 stages of the cicada life cycle.
wildlifeinformer.com
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