Earth mounds in paddock mystery... (help me look smart!)

[Mick Dempsey]

I’m on a Facebook group where a guy has posted these photos asking what these mounds are.

 

Now I’m pretty sure that in some places, certain grasses pull the earth up to form clumps, I’ve tries to strim them in the past.

It looks to me as if these grasses have died leaving these earth clumps.

 

Any ideas from the more agricultural sorts on here?

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[Paul in the woods]

Are they not ant mounds?

 

If it is grass I would call them tussocks. This thread comes up on google with loads more names:

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[topchippyles]

Could they be old mole mounds that has grassed over??

[dumper]

Pretty sure ants

[topchippyles]

4 minutes ago, dumper said:

Pretty sure ants

yes just found this and its in the uk 

[dumper]

They should be very fine soil not always with ants in not common to have so many

[Mick Dempsey]

13 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

Are they not ant mounds?

 

If it is grass I would call them tussocks. This thread comes up on google with loads more names:

What are these? | The Farming Forum

THEFARMINGFORUM.CO.UK

 

I believe you’re right, I know what others have said about ants and moles but ants don’t have mounds so close to each other, and mole hills are less robust

[Stubby]

I had a couple of areas  like that that I had to strim on a regular basis  . bloody pain . I used to call them termite mounds but I think ants is correct .

Edited September 15, 2019 by Stubby

[Mick Dempsey]

I don’t think so Stubs, wood ant mounds are not so concentrated.