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Best method for getting rid of moles?

Posted on 11/26/14 at 1:20 pm
Posted by ForeverLSU02
Albany
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 1:20 pm
My yard has a mole problem and there are tunnels everywhere. Any recommendations?
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 1:21 pm to
Liquid nitrogen
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Dermatologist
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meat slicer
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Posted by Bmath
LA
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 1:24 pm to
Spread insecticide granules around your yard to kill their food source. You can also try castor oil spray that the grubs soak up causing them to taste unpleasant to the moles.
Posted by redbaron
Member since Aug 2011
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 1:25 pm to
Wake up real early. Go where they've been active.

Be waiting with a shovel.
Posted by mark65mc
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Posted by Paluka
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 1:40 pm to
In my backyard, my dogs took care of those little bastards as soon as they broke ground.

In my front yard, I used poison peanuts and that spray that either kills their food source or makes it taste bad. Not sure what it is.
Posted by Bmath
LA
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 1:47 pm to
My neighbor has good success with a probe that goes in the ground. It emits a high frequency noise to scare them off.
Posted by Loveland Tiger
Colorado
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 1:48 pm to
Cats
Posted by AFtigerFan
Ohio
Member since Feb 2008
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 2:01 pm to
quote:

My yard has a mole problem and there are tunnels everywhere. Any recommendations?


You probably only have 1, maybe 2 moles in your yard. They are extremely territorial and will actually kill each other. But 1 mole can dig a metric shite ton of tunnels during a day. Metric shite ton is a scientific term.

With that being said, don't waste your time on gimmicks. Get one of the plunger style spear traps from Lowes/Home Depot (or another store).

Before you place it in the ground, you have to find an active tunnel. Do this by taking a stick and poking a 1" hole in the top of some of the tunnels. Mark them to know where you poked the holes. Check it later or the next day and see if the hole is no longer there (mole dug through the tunnel and pushed dirt back up where the hole was). Once you find the active tunnel(s), place the trap there. It shouldn't take long for the trap to catch the mole.

Here's the important part. Once the plunger sets and the spear strikes the mole, make sure your kids or wife are not around. Because sometimes that mole isn't dead when you dig it up and have to wack it several times with the shovel. Moles are cute, and kids might not want to see it getting destroyed by the shovel. And make sure the shovel is sharp or else when you stab the mole it just sinks into the ground. Then you have to dig it up and keep doing it until it's dead.

Good luck and happy hunting.
This post was edited on 11/26/14 at 2:02 pm
Posted by Pepe Lepew
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Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 6:29 pm to
go to Peststop, buy some coyote urine (comes in dried granules). Will keep all animals away....
Posted by Tiger Paw Paw
Lakeland, La.
Member since Mar 2008
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 6:40 pm to
Every now and again I place a few smoke bombs in the tunnels. Smoke creeps out of the cracks all along the digs. Pick up smoke bombs at the fireworks stand, have fun....
Posted by Ash Williams
South of i-10
Member since May 2009
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 6:42 pm to
its tough, but you're gonna want to give out different info about different situations to all the people you suspect to be the mole

then whenever the cops show up for one of the specific situations, you know who your mole is

then you kill them
Posted by lsucoonass
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 6:58 pm to
Radiation
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Posted by livewire
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Posted on 11/26/14 at 7:12 pm to
quote:

Cats


How do you get rid of cats?
This post was edited on 11/26/14 at 7:12 pm
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