Mole Control Patrol

[Diggin It]

Doesn't everybody have them?

I see runs dug up here and there. Sometimes they wash out in a heavy train and act like drains that cause problems down hill. But I have some areas that see like they got lost and went around in a maze pattern tearing up several square yards of lawn. If you step on that area, it almost all soft and you sink in.

I've run over those areas with a mover dragging a yard roller. That flattens it out for a while, but they come back. I've tried pellets (yellow cone/tube) and general insect control granules that are supposed to kill the grubs they go after. Stuff works for a while, but not very long.

Sonic things are fully useless. Snap/plunge traps are less than useless.

Other ideas?

 

[jyoutz]

Doesn't everybody have them?

I see runs dug up here and there. Sometimes they wash out in a heavy train and act like drains that cause problems down hill. But I have some areas that see like they got lost and went around in a maze pattern tearing up several square yards of lawn. If you step on that area, it almost all soft and you sink in.

I've run over those areas with a mover dragging a yard roller. That flattens it out for a while, but they come back. I've tried pellets (yellow cone/tube) and general insect control granules that are supposed to kill the grubs they go after. Stuff works for a while, but not very long.

Sonic things are fully useless. Snap/plunge traps are less than useless.

Other ideas?

We don’t have moles, but we do have gophers. This spring I got tired of chasing them and called a local service named Gopher Guys. They came and set about 100 traps, and checked them every 3 days. Within a month they cleaned out the gophers and I haven’t seen any activity since April.

 

[MossRoad]

Doesn't everybody have them?

I see runs dug up here and there. Sometimes they wash out in a heavy train and act like drains that cause problems down hill. But I have some areas that see like they got lost and went around in a maze pattern tearing up several square yards of lawn. If you step on that area, it almost all soft and you sink in.

I've run over those areas with a mover dragging a yard roller. That flattens it out for a while, but they come back. I've tried pellets (yellow cone/tube) and general insect control granules that are supposed to kill the grubs they go after. Stuff works for a while, but not very long.

Sonic things are fully useless. Snap/plunge traps are less than useless.

Other ideas?

Having dispatched over 400 on my one acre, the best way is to trap them. You have to locate the main runs, the long tunnels, and trap those. You can't trap the hills, and you can't trap the areas that look like wrinkled carpet. It's fruitless.

Use your heel to stomp in across long tunnels and mark them with little marker flags. Check the heel marks daily. The one's that get popped back up are the active runs. Trap those.

Good luck.

 

[rangerfredbob]

Yeah, what Moss said...

Gophers are easy, Cinch traps or the ol shotgun treatment work wonders, moles are way more difficult especially when they aren't very active like the ones I have... I'm about to start attacking them... I've caught/shot like 60 gophers and they are now eliminated from my property but I think I have caught one mole since I moved here 10 years ago...

 

[CalG]

We have voles in the garden. Pulling down the beans. Wifey is not happy.
I put out a mouse trap with peanutbutter. The dog carried it out of the garden/ 9:_(

 

[Willman]

Mole poison, Not the repellent the big box stores sell
Can find it at certain agricultural stores
A little bit down the most used holes usually does the trick

 

[ericm979]

Snap/plunge traps are less than useless.

I've done pretty well with cinch traps but it takes some persistence. Gophers are easier to trap.

 

[Diggin It]

Use your heel to stomp in across long tunnels and mark them with little marker flags. Check the heel marks daily. The one's that get popped back up are the active runs. Trap those.

Those are the ones I use the yellow cone pellets on. Sometimes it works.

Weird thing. I saw two hawks (falcons?) in the yard one day recently jumping up and down on the ground, then picking at something with their beaks. Watched for 10 or 15 minutes. Once they left, I checked the ground, but couldn't get a hint of what they were after.


But that's why I can't use indiscriminate methods. Too many 'other' things out there.

 

[oosik]

I have pocket gophers. I would suppose - about the same problem as moles. I've trapped them - it's a real PITA.

Then I got a tub of gopher poison granules - at the local AG supply store. A spoon full at every mound site. This has definitely cut down on the PG population. I will be starting up this procedure again in July.

Nice thing about this. It's all happening under ground and stays there - underground. My little Cocker Spaniel - Brownie - is not a digger. So no problem there.

 

[brewdog]

Yes, I had them everywhere with little mole hills I would hit with the mowers. Fixed them totally with this little device along with the mice. Peanut butter scent worked the best. Gone!!

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