How to get rid of moles

In all honesty, I tried worm looking poisons, pesticides, scissor traps, Juicy Fruit, flooding them out with a water hose, my dog, etc. They were unstoppable in my yard.

Not encouraging so far. Ain’t gonna move.

FYI the scissor traps are crap.

I wish I could have gotten my hands on one of these Rodenator.

I have had good luck with those spikes you put in the ground that buzz or hum or whatever it is they do. 2 different times I’ve used them to run a mole over into the neighbors yard

My yard was overrun with them a 6 months ago. Saw this trick on youtube, it worked for me (or I just got lucky and they left).

Buy a bunch of juicy fruit gum. Walk around your yard and poke a hole in their tunnels, and stick a piece of gum in the hole. Cover the hole.

Apparently they are highly attracted to the gum, but their bodies can't process it and it kills them.

Cut my grass yesterday, not one tunnel to be found.

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Traps don’t work.

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I don’t know. I’ve had plenty of success with scissor traps. There’s a bit if a learning curve on figuring out their habits and the best way to set the traps up. It’s darn near impossible to get rid of them completely, but between trapping and treating the yard for grubs they’re not a big issue for me anymore.

The biggest problem for me is that not only do they eat grubs, but they also love earthworms. So I occasionally find a tunnel leading into my garden. I set up the trap on their main highway and it usually doesn’t take long.

In New Mexico we used the garden hose at one hole and our dachshund at the other .....done in two shakes for each that came out. No more moles.

I had pretty good luck with the kill traps. One thing I would do is take skewer sticks and some tape and make little flags and stick them around in the tunnels to see which ones were active and trap those. Some tunnels are used primarily while others may get dug once and never used again.