Started By
Message

Are these indicators of moles?

Posted on 10/21/21 at 7:52 pm
Posted by sweetwaterbilly
Member since Mar 2017
19351 posts
Posted on 10/21/21 at 7:52 pm
Have some holes near the foundation of the house that I’ve packed with play sand. Packed pretty tight so it seems unlikely that all of them caved in. Do these look like signs of moles? I don’t have any mounds anywhere in the actual yard.

Only on this 10-foot stretch of the house. Sand in the other locations has remained undisturbed.

If so, what do you recommend.. the traps or the worms?

Appreciate all you folks on this board. Always a wealth of knowledge.

This post was edited on 10/21/21 at 7:58 pm
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
35721 posts
Posted on 10/21/21 at 8:16 pm to
I can’t help but I’m curious as hell.
Posted by LSU999
Member since Nov 2012
9122 posts
Posted on 10/21/21 at 8:22 pm to
That could be mice, frogs or who knows what else.

The moles on my property have tunnels that you can see above ground.
Posted by HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Member since Jul 2011
29783 posts
Posted on 10/21/21 at 10:01 pm to
Walk around your grass right after you mow it. If your grass is squishy and doesn’t feel as firm and flat as it looks, you definitely have moles.

We have them and those those little bastards drive me crazy. We have killed several in the 10 years we’ve lived here, but they must have litters 100 at a time. My next step is calling Carl Spackler

Posted by Art Vandelay
LOUISIANA
Member since Sep 2005
10725 posts
Posted on 10/22/21 at 7:14 am to
While we are talking about Moles I have a question. Never had moles, that I know of in my yard. I recently re sodded my back yard after I completed my pool. A couple weeks later I found a small mole floating dead in my pool. It’s been a mystery since and for some reason I still think about it. Is it possible that he came in the sod. How deed do they usually dig. Seems like it would be too shallow for him to come in the sod.
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
11696 posts
Posted on 10/22/21 at 7:27 am to
do you have chipmunks in your area?

ETA: do you have a dog? It's about to look wayyyyy worse if it's chipmunks and your dog realizes it.
This post was edited on 10/22/21 at 7:39 am
Posted by commode
North Shore
Member since Dec 2012
1161 posts
Posted on 10/22/21 at 7:57 am to
Rats? My old house in Metairie had rats living in holes under the slab when I first moved in. A bunch of those green cubes down the holes solved that problem.
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45848 posts
Posted on 10/22/21 at 10:33 am to
Get a couple of those old-school colored smoke bombs and throw in the holes. I did that as a kid and wiped out a huge nest of rats under a concrete slab. The rats were running out of the hole in all different colors before dying.
Posted by The Mick
Member since Oct 2010
43359 posts
Posted on 10/22/21 at 2:00 pm to
moles don't leave holes.

those are dog-sized rates probably
Posted by Dances with Beagles
Member since Jul 2021
307 posts
Posted on 10/22/21 at 3:04 pm to
Never seen anything dig like that. But it ain't moles.
Posted by hob
Member since Dec 2017
2143 posts
Posted on 10/23/21 at 6:42 pm to
Chipmunks.
Posted by zippyputt
Member since Jul 2005
5824 posts
Posted on 10/29/21 at 9:35 pm to
Maybe moles. Walk around in your yard near there and if you feel tunnels sinking under your feet just below the surface, that’s probably moles. Get a mole spring spike.
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
31192 posts
Posted on 10/31/21 at 11:30 am to
Do you have skunks around there much? Skunks dig for grubs. Have had that issue in my back yard in south Louisiana and saw the skunk doing it.
first pageprev pagePage 1 of 1Next pagelast page
refresh

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookTwitterInstagram