moles

[Baz]

I tried the Talprid worms and they didn't do the trick for me - I probably didn't use them correctly. So went back to the Molemax and the problem went away.....

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Or get a dachshund. One mole decided to try our back yard as a possible territory. Our male dachshund is a hunter, and it was like a personal affront to him. He was butt deep in a hole and covered in dirt before we had a chance to stop him. He was doing more damage to the yard than the mole. The mole went elsewhere, and the neighbors got to deal with the moles.

Reuben did get a bunny two nights ago. He killed it with a lot of head shaking. We had to put Reuben in the bed of the El Camino to keep him corralled and I put down some of his favorite treats. He thought about it, and finally dropped the bunny, and went for the treats. I grabbed the dead bunny and we buried it in the compost pile to be worm food.

When our wiener was younger he wanted to kill, kill, kill, but at 10.5#, he had a hard time. I did catch him with a bunny cornered in our porch once with a small tuft of fur in his mouth. And he used to chase squirrels, but never caught any.

Many years ago, we had an outside cat. We lived in Japan and had moles around. The cat would frequently bring rats and birds home as gifts. We found him with a mole cornered once, but the mole, despite it's size, was holding its own, maybe because of the noise that it was making. If we'd left the cat with it for a while, I suspect he'd have killed it eventually.

[mthomas58]

Originally Posted by Rapewta

Moles eat Grubs. That is why they tunnel.. looking for them.
Lay down the grub kill granules. Cover the area IAW the instructions.
After the stuff absorbs down in the dirt, the moles will leave because of no more food source and they will hit up your neighbor's grass.
It takes a month for the granules to kill the grubs but it is the only sure way to get rid of them.
Yea..... I tried everything else mentioned without long term success.
Good luck.

Ditto on the grub kill granules. Only method that has worked for me.

[stevej37]

Pics from 10 minutes ago.
First is the trap showing a catch. The next one is the trophy!

[drkshdw]

I ended up buying 2 of those off Amazon. Still waiting to receive them. After buying and not getting 2 off ebay. When I finally get them delivered I'll get them set. I need to get these damn things under control. I swear they reproduce worse than rabbits.

[stevej37]

^^^ I saw that you were concerned about sandy/light soil. The one I set and caught today was in in driveway backfill...which was all sand.
I've found that when seeing multiple criss-crossing tunnels that look as though a half dozen moles...it's usually just one. It's incredible how much damage one damn mole can do.

Good luck!

[drkshdw]

Thanks Steve! I have a 3 acre 'yard'. I know I have one along the driveway, one on the side of my house, one (or two) surrounding the garden, one behind my garage, one in front of and one behind the barn and one around a storage building. This doesn't include an entire pasture covered in tunnels. Basically everywhere except my front yard.

I've been using the out-o-sight traps in the meantime and while they go off once in awhile, they mostly just sit there while they tunnel through them because the sand isn't firm enough to set the trigger. Even if I water them in they dry out within a few hours. Having moved here from Iowa 3 years ago, it's been a challenge getting used to the ground here. Everything I've ever known fails to work here. Including how to control moles.

[Crowbob]

My experience has been that moles are episodic. Everything’s good until all of a sudden there’s molehills popping up everywhere.

Then poof! Gone. Not a trace of ‘em the next year.

Happens maybe once every decade, on average. I’ve lived here 30 years and have had 3 infestations. I think they wipe out whatever they feed on and then move on. I’ve learned to just ride it out.

[stevej37]

^^^ when you say "molehills"..are you talking about the large cones of dirt instead of the raised tunnels that don't break the sod?

If so...those are star-nosed moles which are much harder to trap. The ones that just raise the sod up are easy to trap because they use the same route over and over.

Here's a pic of a star-nosed....(much bigger mole)




normal eastern mole...