My dog keeps finding (and eating...) these little white pellet things in the lawn, I don't really want to touch them but they seem soft, about 8mm long and 5mm diameter. They always appear in these little clumps, buried at the bottom of the grass next to the soil.
I have been in the house about 6 months now and haven't added any fertilisers or treatment to the lawn, I don't know if any type of lawn care was done to the lawn prior to that though.
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I think this is the answer. I also feed the birds the suet nuggets. They take considerably longer to eat then regular seed. At a busy feeder, most birds just fly off with them. I’ve witnessed blue jays, nuthatches, and chickadees fly back and forth several times…presumably hoarding them.
My dad and I fed some grapes to some crows or ravens in Kensington gardens, when one had its fill we watched it tuck it down into the grass and then put a small pile of old mown grass that was near it on top of the grape. I didn’t know they did this and it was truly mind blowing to watch! I took me about 3 mins to find the grape! We covered it back up, don’t worry!
This made the most sense to me, so I looked, and all suet pellets are cut from cylindrical dies. (AI (fwiw!) confirmed that all dies used for this purpose are cylindrical .) I'm mystified!
This looks most like a bumblebee nest. Bumblebees often move into old mouse or vole nests in lawns, and those waxy, cream-to-yellow lumps are typical of their brood cells and cocoons tucked into a ball of dry grass and moss.
Since it's October, the colony is probably finished or close to it. Bumblebee nests only last one season: the workers and old queen die off in autumn, and only new queens survive, hibernating elsewhere. If you don't see bees coming and going, it's almost certainly abandoned, and you can leave it or rake it out. If bees are still active, they're usually gentle, and leaving it a few weeks is the kindest option.
One other possibility is a rodent's food stash. Mice sometimes cache suet pellets or bird-feeder food, and these could pass for that. If they feel greasy or crumbly like suet rather than waxy and papery, and you have a bird feeder nearby, that's the likelier answer.
How is this over the dudes head? This is a response to the dude that didn't get it. And he actually gave an answer/explanation to the original question
Some old man at a rest stop asked my boys if they wanted to see this trick and they were cocky, like they know this one. Except, the old man had an amputated thumb and their minds were blown lol
Reminds me of this older guy, Rob, I used to work with a long time ago that wore an eyepatch.
I was chatting with him in the break room one day when a newer guy walked in, saw the eyepatch and said "Oh hey, a Raiders fan, huh? Getting into the spirit for the start of the season? You've got the eyepatch on the wrong side though!" and Rob went "Oh, thanks for letting me know!" and straight up moved his eyepatch to the other side, revealing his completely empty eye socket, grinned at the guy and asked "How's that? Better?"
I just fucking lost it! I felt pretty bad because it seemed to really freak out the younger guy but I just couldn't stop laughing. After the younger guy stammered out a "sorry" and left, and I finally calmed down enough to stop laughing, Bob fixed his eyepatch and told me "Well I'm glad SOMEONE thought my joke was funny! That guy sure didn't seem to appreciate it."
Look, I'm an older lady & I live in the South. When I read your comment I thought "Squirrels lay eggs?! How did I not know this?!" My eyebrows were raised plumb up over the top of my head! You got me good & you actually made me laugh so hard I was crying! Now I have to show this to my 86 year old Dad!!
Slug or snail eggs. May wanna bring your doggo to the vet to check for parasites like lungworms. Check for toxins in case neighbours used slug bait poisoning as well.
It’s magpies hiding their food in your grass for later (I had this same problem and couldn’t figure out where they were coming from until I saw one in the act!)
It looks like scorpio ant bait pellets. They are usually pinkish salmon color. But once it rained or it has been a long time ago that they were applied then turn into white color. It is applied to the grass area so pets couldn't find and eat them.
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