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How to Get Rid of Garden Moles
About Ground Moles
It’s easy to make a mountain out of a molehill when a mole comes and destroys your garden. These little furry animals live underground and spend their days burrowing through the soil. They are mostly blind and their eyes are sometimes covered with fur or skin. In fact, Darwin once used the mole as an example of a species that phased out an organ because they did not use it enough. He said that functioning eyes were not advantageous to a mole who lives underground, so today they are almost completely blind. While moles are typically harmless to humans, they can do a number on your garden. They push rocks up to the surface which can damage tractors and other equipment. They often damage drainage systems as well. Plus, other animals such as weasels can use mole tunnels to get into fenced off areas. (Learn how to get rid of weasles)
Are moles all bad? Their constant digging helps to aerate the soil and their diet of invertebrate animals means they don’t eat your plants or their roots. However, they will push up small piles of dirt called mole hills which can quickly ugly up your well-kept lawn. In India, moles are considered disgusting animals. In fact, calling a man the Hindi word for mole means that he is a filthy coward. In England, the death of William III is blamed on a mole. The rumor is that William III died after he was thrown from his horse when it tripped over a mole hill.
Getting rid of Garden Moles
The good news is that moles are not social animals, so you usually only need to get rid of one of the little suckers to end your troubles.
An Easy Mole Trap
First, scavenge your property and locate as many tunnels and holes as you can, then find out which tunnels the mole uses frequently by destroying part of the tunnel and waiting to see if the mole fixes it. If he does, then you know this is a tunnel he likes. You can use this to your advantage by setting a trap in this tunnel. You don’t need a trap to catch a mole though. Many times you will see him traveling right under the surface of the ground and you can catch him with two shovels, pitching one in the front and one behind. Once you have him, place him in a covered bucket or trash can and take him far away from your property.
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I have found that a small mp3 player with portable speakers blasting guns n roses or rage against the machine, placed inside a recently dug tunnel does the trick. make sure the player has a long battery life. set the mp3 player over night and the moles will flee!
urinate in a kosher pickle jar then mix with orios and fruit loops, then pour the mixture on top of frequently used tunnels. works ever time!
The best way I found to get rid of moles is to trap moles ! After trapping their are other deterants you can use to help keep moles from you yard.
tell me about those moles they recked my yard. but those smoke bombs really do work i tried them and those suckers havent come back. thanks for the tip Elizabeth!
Ok. landscapers came in and redid my yard and now the little boogers we call moles are in my house like little feild mice and I have small children can some one give me any helpful hints on how to rid of them.
I heard a landscaper with a radio show in Florida once tell the audience to put chocolate Ex-Lax in the mole tunnels. He said that would clean ‘em out and drive ‘em out of your yard. I also heard this on ‘Gardening By the Yard’ - a show that used to come on HGTV. Break off a tiny square and put it in the hole. They eat it and it makes them very sick and they leave, never to return. Moles are an animal that has a memory for traumatic events. Ex-Lax to them is trauma. They won’t come back.
This is what i did i peed in a bottle and poured it down the hole and they ran out of the hole. it sounds disgusting but it works
well i have some good news for the person who said dont use mothballs
they do work and they will not be all over the yard because they disolve very quickly especially on the hot summer days they seems as if they melt in two days i know and the smell is not all that loud because it is outside and also the cutter mosquito repellent that you hook to your water hose works as well but it is a little more expensive than the mothballs. just throw some mothballs in the yard or
stick some down the the holes and all around your flowerbed and watch those moles and their babies move out!!!
drownd them out and shoot them
I watched a mole tear my front yard up for a week. Every morning I would stomp his path down, by the afternoon when I got home from work it was right back. Again I smashed ground down, I repeated this for a week. Saturday morning I was sitting on my front steps early smoking, suddenly the ground moved I got my shovel crept up and rammed it in on him. I dug that spot up a little bit sure enough he was dead. Very efficient and extremely cheap.
I too have been frustrated for the last two years chasing a couple of moles that were having a field day in my yard. I discovered that if I rolled my lawn with a water filled roller each time they began digging I could eventually limit them to a very small area. By sitting quietly alongside where I knew they would be I was able to be there as they would clear an air hole. As soon as I located them I would use a pitchfork to penetrate the hole and excavate the earth in that area. Voila, I was able to bring both of them to the surface and dispatch them, eternally speaking! Pleased at this point to still be mole free.
There are poison smoke bombs (they don’t explode, only smoke) you can use to gas them. You can get them at the local hardware or garden shop. Dig a small hole in one of the fresh mole trails. Light the smoke bomb and place it in the hole. Cover it up, but not so tight that you smother it out. The smoke fills up the trail and gases the moles. Works good!
Definitey don’t use moth balls..I had A LOT of people tell me that works. And it doesn’t! The moth balls just end up on top of my lawn after I’ve buried them all over the place. Hopefully I can get rid of them with other people’s tips. I live on an Army post and I know it’s not right to kill them. But GEEZ my lawn is DESTROYED! Can I flood them out without killing them?
I used the GEL BAIT for moles….followed the directions very carefully & did exactly as it said and “Bingo! No More MOLE!” He took the bait from one of the places that I placed it in the tunnel and I haven’t seen any activity since that first day I placed the bait! (With the gel bait, you have to be very careful in placing it in the tunnel or the dirt will tend to fall back into the hole on top of the bait you just placed & soil the bait…it’s SUPPOSED to resemble a grubworm to attract the mole but if it gets dirt on it…I can see how they wouldn’t go for it then) Anyway..No more freshly raised dirt frm the mole tunneling ( I usually push them down to see when & if he would come thru again and push the dirt back up ) Sure enough…every morning there were the tunnels pushed back up in my garden,.. so…I went to my local feed & seed and they told me that most people had better luck with the gel bait than traps, poison worms etc so, I gave it a try. I’m pleased. He’s gone. They ARE such aggrevating little creatures….VERY ANNOYING. I think it’s because YOU CAN’T ACTUALLY SEE THEM DOING THE DAMAGE and it’s tough to catch them in the act…You just suddenly notice that there’s one around messing up all your hard lawn & garden work!! Frustrating but the GEL BAIT WORKED! For once a product that actually did what it said, Lol~ GOOD LUCK!
Mouse Traps! Yes, cheap mouse trap with a small dab of peanut butter on them. Set out at night near a mole hole. I just started this yesterday and caught (killed) two of the little buggers so far! After spending so much on mole traps, vibrating mole chasers, high pitch mole chasers, poison worms and peanuts this is a cheap and effective tool!
Don’t buy the poison pellets, trap or poison worms. Drown them out. All you need is a hose and some patience. Wait for the mole to pop out and have your pellet gun handy!
Mix peanut butter with human hair (visit your local barbershop)drop mixture into holes cover with plastic. No more moles. Works every time. John R.
Really strange for me that I caught my mole in a bucket and drove him 5 miles away from my house and kndly dropped him off in a field. About 2 days later, there were more holes and now it seems worse than it was before. Do they live in packs???
the old hose always worked for me
all right this is how u do it. Get a hose jam it in a hole flush them out and sit in a chair and w8 with your bb gun pellet gun .22 what ever. Soon you will see them running out of those holes and you shoot them and there goes your mole problem. My dad told me of an old lady he lived next to who wouyld find the end of a mole hole and sit there with a knife. As soon as that mole popped his head out she would shank him and get the job done.enjoy