Moles

[bamachick73]

Hello, I'm new here and have no idea what to do about my mole problem. We have a 1 acre back yard and over the WINTER the moles have taken over. There are hundreds of tunnels. In January we put poison pellets down the twenty holes we had, and I think there was some kind of aphrodisiac in them because now there are hundreds of tunnels.

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Comments

[ayse]

I don't like poisons in a lawn. I think you're right to be concerned about them around your dogs; if yours are anything like mine you can't keep anything out of their mouths. Besides, poison seems to make them abandon tunnels and make new ones. Better to get them to move their tunnels lower into the soil where you never have to even know they are there

[bamachick73]

Ah interesting. Thanks. Yes the husband tends to cut the grass very low, as low as he can. We have a mud-pit back there after a rain, no sand thankfully. Thanks again.

[rhodielady_47]

You must have a lot of grubs in your lawn. Moles tunnel only where they can find a lot of food. Perhaps now is a good time to put out some of the milky spore powder (evenly all over your lawn) to kill out the grubs?
Don't cut your grass too short--makes it unhealthy and thus you get more grubs and eventually more moles.
Something else that will help run off moles is putting cigarette ash into all the tunnels. (If you can find a smoker to keep you supplied with ashes.)

Hope this helps.
:)

[bamachick73]

Thanks, I'll see what I can do!

[rhodielady_47]

You're welcome!
:)

[grin_bear]

We had moles at one house but we had a very good mouser cat and he'd killed them all (and left the bodies strewn all over the place :( ) within a few months. So perhaps a good mouser?