How do ya get rid of moles

[cperky]

Mole are making a mess of my lawn anybody got a trick to get them to go away??

 

[fivestring]

Snakes will eventually help you decrease the mole population!
I've seen hawks try to help out, also.

My parents have the same problem. They also now have some king, black and garter snakes.
They have killed some copperheads, though.
Last summer I watched a hawk pick a mole off of the ground. The mole probably never knew what got him!

 

[Molerj]

Get rid of the worms/insects that the moles are feeding off of. Diazinon or some other granular insect killer. That is what I did.

 

[CTyler]

Yep that works but may take a while.

I used to have a mole problem years ago in our rental property. However to get rid of them right now you'll have to set traps and/or use poison pellts, smoke bombs etc..

 

[Mrwurm]

When moles move into my yard, I hitch up my lawn roller and flatten their tunnels. I do this about three days in a row and they give up and go away. Sometimes, I just use the tractor tires to collapse their tunnels.

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Long term solution is to get rid of the food they eat, which is easily accomplished with a ground applied insect killer, as previously mentioned, but it does take a week or so.

I think getting rid of pests is generally pretty easy. Now if you want to get rid of something that you really really like, move your mother in law in for a while.

 

[fivestring]

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[CTyler]

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I did the manual method a couple times(aka foot tamper). Grab some beer and start watching around sunset. You'll see them pushing thier way through. If you listem real close you can hear all thier four letter words /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif. Grab your favorite tool, pitchfork, shovel etc.. and jab the bump.

Hey...I was bored at the time. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[TWINKLE_TOES]

This thread may help, Mossroad made some very good posts.

Mole Man

 

[MF1455v]

We don't have much of a mole problem where I live in Texas, but growing up in NW Arkansas we had plenty.

By far the most fun is the 12 ga shotgun. We would mash down the runs as mentioned out place a water hose in the run and wait. The water would force the moles out on top of the ground.

A less noisy and time consuming method my Dad currently uses is getting hair for the barber shop. Place a clump of the hair in the run. Next time mole passes he eats the hair and cannot digest it, no more mole. Seems like a good organic method. Does it work? I don't know, but I very seldom see a mole run in his yard.