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Sharp teeth and claws allow gophers to tunnel through all kinds of soil. |
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Strong claws allow gophers to move to the surface 300 tons of soil per year. |
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Small male gopher - built for digging, large muscular forearms and shoulders for digging through rocks and compressed soils |
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This male gopher was killed underneath artificial grass, and a putting green. Golf courses are a major target for gophers. |
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Male gopher |
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Normal sized gopher in Arizona.
These extremely destructive rodents are capable of damaging pools and homes, as well as biting and spreading diseases. |
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Long strong teeth are strong enough to chew through tree roots as well as asphalt and concrete. |
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This adult male gopher was killed as he was transporting food to it's mate. The den is located underneath the customers swimming pool. |
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This male gopher and his mate have a den under this large swimming pool. Gophers can easily locate pools by following pipes, wires and just by running into it. |
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Adult pregnant female was caught in Pinal County. An overabundance of vacant homes is causing a population boom of gophers and other rodentia. |
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This is one "gift" from one tunnel system, leading into a den area, where a female gopher HAD been. Each leaf has been rolled and glued together. Inside, was a yellow substance, it looked like pollen. |
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This is the second of the two "gifts" found in the tunnel system of a male. Without any females, he is resorting to "gifts". |
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A young pocket gopher |
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This gopher is only a few weeks old |
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Young female |
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Young female gopher that had been underneath a pool |
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Gopher trapped from a tunnel underneath a sidewalk |
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Medium size male pocket gopher. |
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Strong claws allow gophers to dig through the hardest types of soil. The teeth of chisel shaped, allowing the gophers to gnaw, grind, chip away, and snip off roots, drip lines and wires. |
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Gophers will use their claws for digging, foraging and also to attack. |
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This male gopher was eating very well when he was killed.
As you can see, this is a male. He had been searching for his females, but all have already been trapped and killed. |
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This is the gopher above. A very large male. |
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Gophers followed the water and sewer lines into this home, creating their den underneath a bathtub on the other side of the wall. They used the insides of the walls to push out the dirt. |
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Gophers tunneled throughout this commercial property, utilizing the sprinkler lines. |
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Once the gophers weakened the foundation around the main water line for the fire hydrant, a small issue - became a very large one. The water followed the gopher tunnels and destroyed the earthen levee behind the wall. |
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Gophers can quickly destroy a lawn. Allow a female to give birth, (gestation is 13 days) and those babies will be mature in another 17 days. When you first see that you have gophers, immediately take action. |
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Gophers love to den underneath pools and pool equipment, damaging wires, pipes and equipment. This is why noisemakers never work on pocket gophers. If the noise from pool equipment and air conditioners don't bother them, those sound makers certainly won't. Customers using them, are actually attracting gophers. |
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Gophers have no problem tunneling underneath roads, highways, canals, and rivers. The tunneling weakens the foundation, causing cracks, fissures and failures. |
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Gophers chewed into this 220 electrical line, and kept on going. Gophers will always chew, pregnant females especially chew and cause wire damages during pregnancies. |
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Farmers continually repair ditches because the gophers tunnel and den along the sides and underneath ditches where it's nice and cool. |
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Gophers will ALWAYS follow and chew into sprinkler and irrigation products. When a female locates the valves, she will make her den there, as in the photo, where it's full of dirt. Inside, wires are chewed through and destroyed. |
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Gophers love pools and unfortunately, the foundations are quickly compromised, when the gophers eliminate the soils from the walls and underneath. Obvious signs are: cracks, water usage increase, buckling and draining. |
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Gophers take advantage of plants near a home, coming out from underneath the bathtub, for a quick meal. |
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Gophers tunneled underneath this home, via the sidewalk. |
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Extensive tunneling by even one gopher can destroy a beautiful lawn. |
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Gophers can quickly take over any property.
Gophers live in great tunnel systems which intersect with other tunnels. This is one reason population increases are so high. Abandoned/Foreclosed homes, and nucience properties are another reason why the gopher populations are out of control. |
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A female gopher tunneled into this customers property from the HOA's property. It caused significant damages to their swimming pool. Homeowners must demand that their HOA's do more than kicking down the mounds of dirt and throwing useless chemicals, poisons and baits. The only method for completely eliminating pocket gophers is by trapping. |
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It's typical for a gopher to den under and alongside a swimming pool. The coolness is perfect for them during pregnancy. Gophers do weaken and can destroy the foundation underneath and along the walls of the pools. NEVER use water when trying to eliminate gophers. You can destroy your pool, or your neighbors. |
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This gopher traveled underneath the community wall, locating the swimming pool. |
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Short gestation periods create higher populations. When properties aren't being maintained, they are "nuciense properties" and can be liable for damages to your property. |
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Severe damage to pool wall and deck by gophers. |
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Gophers got to the pool by traveling underneath the concrete curbing. The plants were destroyed by the gophers.
Once the den is completed, the female will travel short distances to flowerbeds for her food. She will take the roots, even entire plants will dissapear and be taken into the den.
Using water in an attempt to kill gophers, will never reach the den. Gophers design their tunnels to form air pockets for protection against flooding. |
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This swimming pool has extensive damage to it's foundation and walls. There was cracking throughout. 15 gophers were killed that were utilizing this pool, not including babies. |
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The homeowner thought that the damage to his pool were from the plants, however, gophers followed the pool equipment lines to the planter, where the gopher took up residency. Gophers caused the failure in this pool wall. |
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Another view from above image. |
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Gophers tunnel underneath swimming pool, causing extensive damages to the foundation. |
