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What is building this mud turrets in my garden? How to get rid of it please?

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Greetings!

 

Long story short: What is that and how can I get rid of that?

It makes my garden unmaintainable during the raining season. Mowing the lawn becomes very tedious and one night later they start to build up again.

 

 

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  • hotchilli
    hotchilli

    Put a tot of whisky into a watering can, water the lawn evenly. The grass comes up half-cut.

  • IgboChief
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    In the meantime I found it out: these are Cicada chimney built by Cicada nymphs during the raining seasons to prevent them from drowning.   This makes sense to me since I have many large tre

  • worgeordie
    worgeordie

    Looks like you have worms , and you don't want to get rid of them, they are very good for your garden, the casts are free fertilizer , this only happens in rainy season ? right , they are ge

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Looks like you have worms , and you don't want to get rid of them,

they are very good for your garden, the casts are free fertilizer ,

this only happens in rainy season ? right , they are getting a bit waterlogged .

regards Worgeordie

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18 minutes ago, IgboChief said:

Mowing the lawn becomes very tedious

get a goat :tongue:

1 hour ago, johng said:

get a goat :tongue:

Stupid boy !  Imagine goat dumps on the lawn.   I have a lawn but no worm casts nothing left by my 2 cats either , oh sometimes a piece of rat maybe.

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Fantastic pictures! Can't help with the problem though. ????

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In the meantime I found it out: these are Cicada chimney built by Cicada nymphs during the raining seasons to prevent them from drowning.

 

This makes sense to me since I have many large trees and deafening cicada noise every summer.

 

I was advised the cover the most infested areas with insecticides (SEVIN or Reclaim IT) and will do so now because it became an unbearable problem.

 

 

20 hours ago, JetsetBkk said:

Fantastic pictures! Can't help with the problem though. ????

replace with green concrete is as close as i come

1 hour ago, IgboChief said:

insecticides (SEVIN or Reclaim IT)

closet greenie says... 
check under what conditions they become carcinogenic 

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Chinese clay army.

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On 7/30/2021 at 8:35 AM, IgboChief said:

Mowing the lawn becomes very tedious

Put a tot of whisky into a watering can, water the lawn evenly.

The grass comes up half-cut.

Do you have dogs?  I don't use chemicals on my lawn because of them.

On 7/30/2021 at 3:35 AM, IgboChief said:

Mowing the lawn becomes very tedious and one night later they start to build up again.

Amazing photos, especially the lower one, I often miss the ????-emoji in the like-bar.

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3 hours ago, IgboChief said:

In the meantime I found it out: these are Cicada chimney built by Cicada nymphs during the raining seasons to prevent them from drowning.

 

This makes sense to me since I have many large trees and deafening cicada noise every summer.

 

I was advised the cover the most infested areas with insecticides (SEVIN or Reclaim IT) and will do so now because it became an unbearable problem.

 

 

Well I just googled cicada chimney and they look nothing like that, certainly look more like earthworm casts????????????????

58 minutes ago, rwill said:

Do you have dogs?  I don't use chemicals on my lawn because of them.

Why are the poster's dogs stopping you from using chemicals on your lawn?????

14 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

Well I just googled cicada chimney and they look nothing like that, certainly look more like earthworm casts????????????????

I was thinking “crawldads” but I don’t know if they exist in Thailand.

3 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:

I was thinking “crawldads” but I don’t know if they exist in Thailand.

No idea what they are, I'm off to Google ????

6 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:

I was thinking “crawldads” but I don’t know if they exist in Thailand.

Google don't know or ever heard of them, got a pic ??

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1 hour ago, rwill said:

Do you have dogs?  I don't use chemicals on my lawn because of them.

Does the dog help me to mow?

 

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6 minutes ago, Nojohndoe said:

My wife says a big type of  worm

I thought that too but have been proven wrong: we have actually compost areas with earth worm (up to 50 cm beasts), but not a single chimney there.

Also, I dug a few up and found the nymph.

34 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

Google don't know or ever heard of them, got a pic ??


Google “crawl dad mud towers”

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3 hours ago, wombat said:

closet greenie says... 
check under what conditions they become carcinogenic 

I know, and its no light hearten decision.

But these chimneys are quite big, up to 25 cm and it takes them only 3-4 days to build them.

 

I have a beast of a lawn mower, with 30 cm rotating blades, which blunt completely after one hour mowing. When the soil is wet, it is dense enough to stall the engine. When it is dry it will turn into dust choking the engine and me. I have to maintain almost 3 Rai and its no joke.

 

During the rain season, the grass here grows like 10 cm in 3-4 days. Regular mowing is key or it gets out of control. So sorry, these beast have to go.

On 7/30/2021 at 8:35 AM, IgboChief said:

It makes my garden

it's obviously not your garden.  

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20 minutes ago, wwest5829 said:


Google “crawl dad mud towers”

Kudos Sir, I tip my hat! This is a perfect match and it looks like I have been wrong, twice! Thanks for helping out: How to get rid of it?

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1 minute ago, NCC1701A said:

it's obviously not your garden.  

Puyai Ban says, it is. And he is the law here. Come and try him????

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23 minutes ago, Nojohndoe said:

My wife says a big type of  worm

Mine says the same, but I was talking about the garden and the chimneys.

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