Moles

[malawiman]

We raise a lot of rabbits and we use to have tunnels everwhere. We got two cats, miss kitty and butter and the moles are no more. Maybe go to your local animal shealter and get you a cat that would be organic, predator and prey.

 

[greenmatter]

you have to read the first post man

i actually considered going to the shelter and getting one or two ....... the thing is i don't want cats indoors, and using them for the summer and planning to abandon them to the colorado winter is just fucking wrong IMHO....... i am not a "cat person" but i can't do that kind of shit to any animal. unless it is eating my fucking plants of course

i am hoping another one of the neighbors cats discovers the old ones spot and hangs out for a while

 

[malawiman]

Dont know if you have grubbs where you live, but here they come up from below the frost line in the spring. Thats is what the moles around here are after get the grubs the moles should leave and i did read the first post thought getting another cat would help sorry

 

[TLoft13]

Seems like you need a Rodenator. Fuel-air bombs against moles definitly is total war, along with the smell of napalm in the morning.
Good hunting!

 

[williamgodwin]

Had this problem 20 years ago in Dad's garden.

I had a 50cc motorbike and we dug into the tunnel and vented the exhaust fumes into the mole runs using old hosepipe. It worked for him but there was only one mole run. I guess if you tried this, maybe also fumes from a generator, a few times in different places it could work.

 

[Funion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_lathyris
Mole Plant.
They really work and you don't need more than 1 or 2 placed around the yard.

 

[JHerbz]

m80s

 

[greenmatter]

m80s

might work ....... but in my part of suburbia M80s attract cops, and i like moles more than cops.



at least one of the local felines has taken over the place in the food chain that the old one left, so i'm getting some help from them.

i think i just need to look really hard for the moles this fall and get rid of all that i can to keep them under control

FWIW i read somewhere that castor oil is an awesome repellent for these little bastards ......... i'm going to dose around the compost and leaf mold piles (where they seem to love it) and see what happens this winter

 

[Fuzzy Puffer]

I have 30 years of trapping and pest control experience. Not sure how a cat would help. Moles spend most of their lives underground. Steve Albano traps are the best as mentioned earlier and there are good how to vids on youtube
In my experience people get voles and moles mixed up all the time.

 

[greenmatter]

I have 30 years of trapping and pest control experience. Not sure how a cat would help. Moles spend most of their lives underground. Steve Albano traps are the best as mentioned earlier and there are good how to vids on youtube
In my experience people get voles and moles mixed up all the time.

brother i have not seen one of the little fuckers so you could be 100% correct.

tell me how to tell them apart by the damage they do if you could. these things ate a whole bunch of stuff over the winter and all the damage was under or at ground level, tunnels and paths going everywhere. i have not heard of problems with voles in my area, but that sure as hell does not mean anything

what is the best way to kill voles?

 

[Fuzzy Puffer]

Voles leave the trails on top of the lawn and the trails will lead to tiny nickel sized holes where they den. They are also known as meadow mice. They are herbivores and eat seeds and plants They girdle plants and will eat roots. Youtube vole trapping.
Moles live underground and leave mounds of dirt on your lawn. They are carnivores and love dew worms and grubs. Moles wont do much to damage a plant unless they are tunnelling around the roots Mole trapping is done underground in their tunnels. Their tunnels are often raised just under the sod. These are feeding runways. You are best to dig down by the mounds to trap These tunnels are their main ones
Besides living in the ground, the only other thing they have in common is their names rhyme

 

[Fuzzy Puffer]

It sounds like voles. Your lawn looks like a race track of trails after the snow melted? Voles 100%

 

[Fuzzy Puffer]

Follow the trails to little holes. These lead to den. Set mouse traps facing towards the hole in either direction. Cover the traps with something like a piece of eavestrough so the voles are forced to run over the trap when they exit the hole. No bait required. There is a good vid on youtube. They also react to peanut butter on a mouse trap but coons/skunks usually come at night and mess that up

 

[greenmatter]

they left the lawn alone for the most part, but thrashed the hell out of a lot of the perennials i have planted everywhere. bastards destroyed delphiniums and red hot poker that were getting huge. it is like they knew that i don't really give a shit about the grass so they went after the stuff that i do care about.

one of the reasons i though it was moles is that most of the trails seem to lead to the part of my yard where the compost and leaf mold piles are. i figured they were in there chowing down on bugs all winter, so i thought moles

now i'm starting to think that i have both, or that it's all voles that are doing the major damage

thanks for the information fuzzy!


if i can find their den will a gopher gasser work against them!

 

[Fuzzy Puffer]

Ya u can gas them. The tell tale sign for moles is big piles of dirt on your lawn. Looks like someone dumped a shovel full of topsoil on your lawn. If you don't have this sign, you don't have moles

 

[trichrider]

thought about some starting fluid (ether) sprayed into hole, then put a blower into the hole to force it through. this should suffocate the little bastards. if not, apply a match to the fumes...same principal as rodentator.
m80s will not suffice, trust me.
tried bait, tried noise, tried explosives, i'm going to try gas...they deserve it. have ruined the lawn, and are ruining my disposition, so fuck em!
good luck greenmatter, and let us in on your success/failure.

 

[buddymate]

i'm going to try gas

Aluminium phosphide finishes the game very quickly

 

[trichrider]

mmmkay

mmmkay

Aluminium phosphide finishes the game very quickly

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Aluminum Phosphide is a Restricted Use Pesticide so may be purchased and used only by certified applicators (2). It is in EPA Toxicity Class I and products containing it must bear the signal word DANGER (1, 2). Aluminum Phosphide was first registered for use in the United States in the late 1950s (4).

thank you

 

[Organic joe]

I've been told to put a stick of gum in their holes and it will kill them not sure if it works or not I have put some in the holesat my house and noticed a few pieces missing well see if it works

 

[greenmatter]

^^^^^^^ worth a try ....... worst thing that can happen is the doublemint twins show up to protest