re: Moles in my yard. Any recommendations??

snakes

That's for Gophers not mole's

Sometimes hard to find and get rid of a mole. He can help

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the bastards have gotten back in my garden.

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Moles are very territorial, and they rotate tunnels the way farmers rotate crops. They clear out one yard of bugs, then move on to the next.

The thing is... once their tunnels become part of the "network" of tunnels, they are always on the network. Some mole will work your yard into their rotation when it's available.

So that's why you see them go away and come back, then come back again, and again, and again.

Moles are remarkable survivors. I would recommend dealing with them one of two ways. Traps, or using a rat terrier to go after them when they surface at night.

All moles crawl to the surface at night, because that's where the worms are. Get you a rat terrier (borrow one if you don't want to keep him) with mental problems, and turn him loose at night. He will have a field day.

Going after a mole while he's underground is pointless. You get them on the surface or transitioning to the surface with traps.

That Victor trap (I think that is who makes it) took care of my problem. Worked like a charm.

Get a dog. The moles will move into your neighbors' yards.

Problem solved.

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First hand experience in my yard... Moles didn't bother me much until the dog discovered he could dig them up and proceeded to tear up the yard hunting them. Elderly neighbor suggested finding their tunnels, poking holes in them and placing juicy fruit chewing gum for them to eat. Apparently they cannot resist it and once consumed, it reacts unfavorably with their little mole bowels and they croak. Worked as advertised.

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It's like deja vu. Exact same experience, and I'll cosign on the trick with gum, also works on chipmunks.

Tomcat mole traps

Get these at Lowes. I had tried poison and metal spike traps before, but these traps work and are fun to use. You can look out in your yard and see the gold part flip up when a mole has been caught, makes it a sport almost!

I remember many years ago there was a funny "mole" post on a message board - may have been this one.

Anyway, a guy from out west somewhere moved to Louisiana. As he was still in the process of moving into the house it rained for a couple days in a row. He wound up on the message board freaking out because of all the moles there were in Louisiana. He had seen or heard of them where he was from but was totally freaked out by the crazy experience he was having in Louisiana.

He gets advice from other posters on the board but figured the task was way too big and daunting for him to handle personally. He called an exterminator who said he was able to come by in a couple days to give an estimate and hopefully start eradicating the varmints.

When they arrived the two exterminator guys asked him to show them where he had seen evidence of the moles. He immediately thought they were freakin crazy, drunk or possibly blind. He started walking around his yard pointing out all of the mole holes.

He wound up getting very pissed off because they just busted out laughing. He ordered them off his property. They left still laughing, and as they were getting into the truck the younger tole him, "Mister you don't have moles those are crawfish holes." That really freaked the guy out, not knowing what a crawfish was at the time, he had to go to the neighbors to find out what a crawfish was and said they couldn't stop laughing either.