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-  Pest

-  Brown, potato looking creature

-  1' tall

-  Throughout Europe and North America

-  7-10 years

-  Herbivores – feed on plants and horklumps

-  Live in interconnected underground tunnels – up to 1 to 2 miles long, width of yard

-  Live as large colony; all communal space – rooms have certain purpose

     o  Sitting rooms – entertainment

    o  Breeding rooms – like other mammals, no set mates, rotate through 2 or 3

          ~  Gestation is 59-62 days (2 months); 1 baby (pup) who stay with the colony for life

          ~  Start around 6 mo.

          ~  6 pups a year, most take break so only 3 or 4

     o  Food storage

     o  Sleeping rooms

-  Removal

     o  Method 1

           §  Grab head and swing around in a circle

           §  Let go and fling from yard

           §  Too dizzy to come back

           §  Other flock to surface to watch

           §  After 5 or 6, should file out

           §  May come back due to low intelligence

     o  Method 2

           §  Release a Jarvey in the yard

           §  Will eat 1 or 2 gnomes, rest will flee

     o  Will move to a new yard with an abandoned tunnel system or new yard and make tunnels

           §  Takes 2-3 months to create full set

-  Most people believe gnomes don't have magic

-  Xenophilius Lovegood – saliva has beneficial properties that raises creativity; never proven