Are Moles ruining your beautiful garden?

The obvious reason for getting rid of moles is that they leave a lawn in looking like a bomb site with their molehills and their tunnels, or “runways” as they’re called in the pest control industry. It is often what happens underneath the soil as to why people want to get rid of moles depending on the species and how hungry they are. The thing is, a gardener (or the person in charge of lawn maintanence) has to decide which is more important, getting rid of grubs and other garden pests or getting rid of moles. Moles are under your lawn and in your garden for one reason and one reason alone: there is food in that there dirt, and lots of it. Moles love grubs and/or beetle larvae. Earthworms are yummy, too. But mostly they’re there for the grubs. So, obviously, if you have a problem with grubs, it might be a good idea to let the moles live. Moles don’t do that much damage to the vegetation, really. Their jaws aren’t strong like a groundhog’s. If, however, you have a supermole on your hands, then here are some ways to certainly get rid of moles.

Detecting which mole tunnels are most active is your first step to get rid of moles. Of all the mole species, there are just two ways to detect whether or not mole tunnels are active. The first way (for moles that build shallow tunnels) is to find a straight runway and stomp it in with your foot. If the mole is active in that area they will repair the tunnel in no less than a day. The second way to find an active mole runway is to poke around with a stick around the area where there are a large number of molehills. Once you’ve found a spot where the earth gives way, you’ve found an active tunnel

If you’re not into the whole trapping thing as a way to get rid of moles, you might want to try flooding the moles out. There are a lot of people who say that flooding moles out of their tunnels doesn’t work, and they might be right about a particularly persistent mole. The key to the flooding method is to find a straight active tunnel amidst a cluster of molehills. Simply insert the hose into the tunnel, wait until there is a sufficient amount of flooding, and see if you can’t catch the little bugger when he tries to escape.

If killing the mole doesnt sit easy with your concience then there is one extremely effective alternative that has been around for some years now. The Yeoman Solar Powered Sonic Mole Mover works by emitting sound waves every 30-35 seconds at frequencies between 400 and 1000Hz. Moles and other small underground rodents find these sounds unpleasant and seek to avoid the area covered by the sound. The beauty of the device is that worms and insects (that do so much good in your garden) are not affected by the mole mover.