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I'm confident someone here will quickly know the answer to this.

What kind of hole is this? What likely made it?

Details: About 3500 ft elevation in smoky mountains, western NC, in a boggy area beside a seep or spring run. That's a woman's hand for scale. Ran across this this week. Temp mid-50s.

I realized i've spent so much time telling people holes in the ground weren't made by snakes, I don't know what some of the holes were made by. fwiw, I saw no crawfish in the small stream. And I looked.

Any ideas? It'll probably be obvious to one of you.

here's the photo i meant to run with that question!

Crayfish hole, crawdad to the folks down south.

Agreed. Just because you see no crawdads/crayfish doesn't mean they are not there. Many species are strictly burrowers. Personally, I wish it was a giant undiscovered species of wolf spider, but that's just me.
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>>Agreed. Just because you see no crawdads/crayfish doesn't mean they are not there. Many species are strictly burrowers. Personally, I wish it was a giant undiscovered species of wolf spider, but that's just me.

hmmm....something DID bite me while i was taking the picture, and now i feel all tingly....

volcano.....dont stand too close

>>volcano.....dont stand too close

see, that's why these forums are so great. who KNOWS what might have happened to me without that warning?!

Looks like a locality nuts butt!