{"id":250,"date":"2019-12-20T09:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/?p=250"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:28:57","slug":"four-legged-excavators-cause-damage-to-home-lawns-this-time-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/four-legged-excavators-cause-damage-to-home-lawns-this-time-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-legged excavators cause damage to home lawns this time of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\">Moles are insectivores that are closely related to shrews and bats. In the fall, there is a lot of mole activity because white grubs are starting to hatch out near the soil surface. This is one of the mole\u2019s favorite snacks. Moles tunneling under the lawn can be a symptom of a grub problem, especially in yards that are consistently irrigated.\u00a0 <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/fieldreport.caes.uga.edu\/news\/four-legged-excavators-cause-damage-to-home-lawns-this-time-of-year\/\">Read the entire article on CAES Field Report<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/files\/2019\/12\/Moleifas.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Mole\" class=\"wp-image-251\" style=\"width:659px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/files\/2019\/12\/Moleifas.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/files\/2019\/12\/Moleifas-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/files\/2019\/12\/Moleifas-768x219.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moles are insectivores that are closely related to shrews and bats. In the fall, there is a lot of mole activity because white grubs are starting to hatch out near the soil surface. This is one of the mole\u2019s favorite snacks. Moles tunneling under the lawn can be a symptom of a grub problem, especially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawns","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/bartow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}