While gophers and groundhogs are often mistaken for one another, there are key differences in their size, appearance, ...

A gopher, or a pocket gopher, is brown and usually between six and 10 inches, though larger ones might even go up to 14 inches. More than 40 species of pocket gophers are found throughout North ...

Typically, a groundhog hole will appear roughly 10 to 12 inches in diameter as they burrow into the soil. What’s more, burrows can reach up to 50 feet in length but tend to be no deeper than six ...

The pocket gopher mound is low, less than three inches, and is usually shaped like a horseshoe. Pocket gophers are super diggers. They use both their teeth and their claws to dig tunnels.

Groundhog Day and all the hoopla surrounding it doesn't mean much to Florida. After all, you have to actually have a "winter" to care whether you get six more weeks of it.