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    Default Wonder what lives Here!

    This morning, this appeared in the dirt floor of my shed.
    I wonder what could make that size hole in compacted earth overnight?
    How many legs does it have?
    Where did it learn to make such a perfect shaft??
    Hope it doesn't have eight legs
    Any thoughts??

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    The lesser spotted tentpeg?
    Whatever it is, it must be substantial to make a hole that big. Poor a bit of petrol down and light it and see what's blown out!
    Cheers
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    It's only a snake, no legs, no worries
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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    G'day Iain,
    Snake.....no problems (their edible)
    Can't work how he could do such a round hole though.......probably head dive and wriggle??

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    Well, at least it left you something by way of compensation for the digging.
    Cheers,

    Bob



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    G'day Bob,
    I was gonna go look again about an hour ago..........but then again, maybe I don't really want to know.
    I reckon Cliff Rogers would have seen holes like this.

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    Yep, Cliff's the man to ask about holes.
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    Default a bug

    was walking in the dandenongssaw a hole like that,
    asked a ranger, he said yabby, but we were yonks away from a creek,
    he said they can burrow for miles,
    or a cicada?

    astrid

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    Quote Originally Posted by astrid View Post
    was walking in the dandenongssaw a hole like that,
    asked a ranger, he said yabby, but we were yonks away from a creek,
    he said they can burrow for miles,
    or a cicada?

    astrid
    More likely a land crab, we used to get them in the Dandenongs when we lived up there, no water or creeks for miles.
    Look a bit like a yabby but translucent white/brown.
    Could also be where you dropped your drill after that drop bear dribble (you know, the time you forgot).
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    The ground is too dry for your yabby. Possibly a cicada, but very early in the season. He'd be well and truly out of the gene pool.
    Possibly a Bogong moth larva but you'd see the pupal skin somewhere nearby. Also possibly some other beetle larva hatching out.
    Or.. and Iain could confirm this I suspect, Iain, is it perhaps the Lesser Ambivalent Avocan Subterranean Drop Sloth Bear? Extremely rare and equally savage.

    Regards,

    Rob

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    Quote Originally Posted by LGS View Post
    Or.. and Iain could confirm this I suspect, Iain, is it perhaps the Lesser Ambivalent Avocan Subterranean Drop Sloth Bear? Extremely rare and equally savage.

    Regards,

    Rob
    Extremely unlikely as they are only found in the arid desert regions of Tasmania, unless one has found its way across Bass Strait, the Avocan variety has not been seen since the time of the early settlers and is presumed extinct, although Watsons Wonder Water has resurected some previously presumed extinct species.
    I can vouch for this after falling over in what I thought was my driveway after taking a draught of this wonderful water, it was in fact a rather long wide flat serpent that moved under my feet causing me to become disorientated and fall over.
    Truly a miracle.
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    Looks about right for a yabby but their holes that I've seen are usually almost cemented around the top and sides with mud. Saw a D9 Dozer and scraper disappear almost up to the top of the roll cage in a massive yabby hole at Mooroolbark back in the 70's when doing earthworks for a subdivision.

    Created a great stir, had the place swarming with archaeologists for a week or so. Said it was a fantastic find and could be many thousands of years old. Also explained why there were ancient aboriginal mizzen or something, they also found about 2 metres under the surface.

    Noel, your other option up there is the possibility it's going to open up into a massive mine shaft and swallow the shed.


    Might be the culprit but doubt it. It's a breather hole for something bigger and more sinister I reckon.
    Cheers - Neil

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    Swallowed up by a mining hole.......that'd save me a lot of tidying up!
    Got a stick down it today........and it goes down 300mm straight. Nothing gooey on the end of the stick, just soft dirt.
    Its not moth time here..thats around March.
    I've left the stick in for overnight, and if its out of the hole in the morning, I'm building a new shed.
    Shouldn't have read all those John Wyndham...Steven King.......Alfred Hitchcock.
    I liked Skew's idea..but I'll check on that.....shortly (sorry)

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    Have you considered it might be something that came out,
    not went in?
    woody U.K.

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