Dang moles tearing up my yard!!!!!!!!!

[Mark Christianson]

What the heck is the best way to get rid of these things?????

I want from none in the last 3 years, to a herd of these little bastages.

[Chris Haley]

Try

critter-repellent.com

Sounds pretty good.

[Jackpine Rob]

I got a couple of those mole traps that spear the little buggers in their tunnels. I was a bit skeptical at first, but after nailing several of the pesky devils, there was a certain savage delight in checking the "trapline" daily.

Something about the various chemical and fumigation products just didn't trip my trigger. We have a few fairly tame chipmunks around that I didn't want to get caught in the crossfire, and the traps seemed to do the trick.

[Powerstroke]

In my professional opinion.....

Moles will only stay in a yard because there is something there for them to eat. Moles love grubs!! The first step I would take would be to do an insecticide treament aimed at killing grubs in your lawn.

The timing is important when applying a treatment so make sure you talk with someone knowledgable either where you buy the product or you can talk to a local company that treats lawns. MAke sure they are reputable and have commercial pesticide licenses.

My experience was that killing the grubs will not only encourage the moles to leave, but you will have a better lawn too.

[Dan Thiem]

Same story with our yard Mark, we never had a single one. Then within a time frame of a few years we had those tunnels all over the place. The rider used to take a beating whenever I mowed. Scalping the tunnel humps and the bumps they leave really can bounce you around.

After I tried the exhaust from the dirt bike via a garden hose, Juciy Fruit gum, and a couple more lame ideas I finally found a product that worked. It's called Mole and Gopher Bait. It comes in a yellow plastic jar with a white lid. Cheezy name but it worked and I can now say we are free of those "bastages".

Just take a butter knife make a slit in the top of the tunnel and drop a few of these pellets in and move to a new area and do the same.

They cruise their tunnels searching for grubs and they come across these and they eat them.

[RussPanfishguy]

Okay, biglake depending on where you are at in the country or out in the city you may not want to do this. My dad takes a small disc that can be pulled behind his garden tractor and goes over his whole yard with it. Then he plants grass seed after it, and then gets one of those pull behind roller and rolls down the little mounds. Also helps airate the yard. This does not always work but my dad has fun chasing down the moles.

[luckyc]

I use the choker loop traps, I get 10 plus moles a year. I have the best luck along the driveway or the foundation of the house. In the yard they very seldom reuse the same tunnel. This trap only works in the tunnels, not when they start mounding up the dirt. When I see them starting to mound I grab the water hose and shove it down there hole and after a good blast of water they come out of the hole and I salute them with the business end of a shovel.

[i wont do it]

I agree with the choker loop. I catch about ten a year in my yard {next to a wooded area } thats where they come from,i have tried every thing the stores have and the choker is the best! i would rather catch them than poison them because then i know i have em. good luck

[MNUser]

I had this same problem last fall and this spring. They did a number on the yard. They are now gone.

Here was my solution:

You need to kill the feed source. Like stated above, they love grubs and they will mow the roots off the grass in search of their beloved food source. KILL the grubs. I bought a few bags of the grub killer and spread it on the yard.

Go on the net and learn about the life cycle of a grub. It will help you get a better understanding of what they are up too. If you spread the killer now it may not take care of them forever. You WILL need to spread it again in the fall. I will be placing it on the yard again at the beginning of September and then again in the Spring. It will not hurt the yard so be generous.

I did end up catching one last Fall and took it to the local nursery so they could identify it. I then dug up a section of the yard to identfy the food source. Once I knew the factors, I brought out the big guns and they are now living in other yards, not mine!

It takes time. Stay on top of them. The grubs have a 2-3 life cycle. Stay on top of it! They suck and do a ton of damage!

[Deephole57]

DRY ICE the holes and top with dirt and anything to keep it "air-tight" The gas from the Dry Ice pulls out the oxygen and sufficates them.

People use this for gophers as well.

Plug off all except about 2 - 4 tunnels and fill them with Dry Ice, cover up the holes you filled with dirt and plywood or anything like.

[BillP]

If the grubs are so bad and the moles eat the grubs then the moles are doing you a favor

[Dennis Steele]

FREAKING MOLES!!!

I must have looked like Bill Murray in Caddy Shak trying to get rid of those dang pests!

I tried every thing from poison, castor oil on the grass, "grub be gone", to the garden hose and even pumping my truck exhuast down the holes for over 8 hours.

Nothing worked.

It only aggravated them and then they dug more holes!

When I finnaly gave up, they went away.

[Ufatz]

In the old days we had a method that never failed. We would take canned peas and sprinkle them around a hole. When the mole came up to take a pea we hit it with a baseball bat. Worked every time.

[gspman]

Ufatz,

Your killin' me man.

gspman

[icehousebob]

My wife cured our mole problem without realizing it. She brought home a pair of Bassett Hounds. We have invisible fence so they have the run of the yard. I've watched them running across the yard and screech to a dead stop and dig like crazy. Then they pull a mole out of the ground and throw it into the air. Then they make a victory lap around the yard with it. If I hadn't seen it happen several times, I wouldn't have believed a dog could smell an animal underground like that. Amazing noses on those goofy little clowns.

[hawkeye43]

i got a little upset being that could't catch them in the traps so i steped all the ground down as I did you could see one push it back up. One 20 ga shot, all done NOW!!!!!!

[CanoeCruiser]

I had a moderately severe infestation at the new house in Farmington, and what has worked for me is the castor-oil based repellants.

True, I have to put it down twice a year (Spring and Fall), but it seems fairly effective, non-toxic and environmentally friendly. Just spray it on, soak it in, and presto! The moles become your neighbors problem!