The moles or the blue hairs?Hey now. Those things are vicious! Cant take your eyes off 'em!
The moles or the blue hairs?Hey now. Those things are vicious! Cant take your eyes off 'em!
Yes.The moles or the blue hairs?
Did she steal your wallet??Hey now. Those things are vicious! Cant take your eyes off 'em!
I just have one trap and it is like that one, I need to do better at placement in the tunnel, will be working on that. I will probably buy a couple more traps, maybe a different kind to try the others suggested. Jim.I’ve had great success with traps of this style. The EasySet Mole Eliminator is another of the same type, and there are Chicom knockoffs as well.
Assuming you have a decent trap that works, your technique is key. As with most things, if the tool is good, it’s the tool-user that’s the more important factor.
I walk the yard and when I find a tunnel I flatten a 4 to 6 inch section crossways with my boot and mark it with a survey flag. Check the flags at half a day later, and set traps on any that are pushed back up.
Leave the traps for 24 hours, and if they’re not tripped move them to another tunnel section that has been pushed up.
Works great. I can trap virtually all the moles out of an area the size of a typical yard in a week tops (normally run 2-3 traps).
This way you’re only trapping active tunnels. Trapping unused tunnels is a waste of time.
Don’t buy the conventional wisdom/nonsense there are only 5-6 moles in an acre. Depending on your soil conditions there can be many, many more. When we moved into our current house, the lot of which is maybe half an acre, I think I initially trapped about 50 moles out of the yard. Completely eradicated them for a couple of years, and then as with most vacuums in nature, moles from adjacent areas eventually found the way back in, and I had to do another round of trapping. Rinse and repeat.
I had always heard maybe 2 to 3 per acre .............................Definitely nonsense .Don’t buy the conventional wisdom/nonsense there are only 5-6 moles in an acre. Depending on your soil conditions there can be many, many more. When we moved into our current house, the lot of which is maybe half an acre, I think I initially trapped about 50 moles out of the yard. Completely eradicated them for a couple of years, and then as with most vacuums in nature, moles from adjacent areas eventually found the way back in, and I had to do another round of trapping. Rinse and repeat.
The not being a threat to kids or pets is HUGE.Wrigley's spearmint gum.
Seriously.
As long as you can find an active hole, or run.
Moles are almost blind, but have a very good sense of smell.
Roll up a stick of spearmint gum long wise, to resemble a worm.
Insert the gum "worm" into the hole or poke it into the active run.
Moles love spearmint, and will ingest the gum worm.
That is more or less the end of the mole.
They cannot digest gum, and they cannot regurgitate.
They end up dying of bowel impaction.
Cheap, easy, and not dangerous to kids or household pets.