I've been spreading Molex, among other granular products, for a few years. Including, pouring directly into holes as a deterrent. Difficult to determine effectiveness. Best of luck!
Our Golden/Chow used to dig them out of their hole so our cat could catch them. It was something to watch.
This is what I use. First season I killed 27. Once you figure out how to set it with a hair trigger, even the smallest moles die.
Around here tunnels just under the surface are moles. Mounds =gophers. I’ve got tunnels, my back lawn is like Swiss cheese. And I didn’t think I have grubs, but maybe.
Get that trap! We have two. Any sign of the surface tunnels on the edges of our yard,I'm setting them. Soon as the frost is out of the ground in spring.
Kill all the grubs and worms in your yard and the moles will leave. This is what the golf courses do! I hate to poison our yard especially during bird nesting season. I use the victor mole traps with a reasonable degree of success during the spring and early summer months. We have a mole super highway where the moles come into the yard from the surrounding rough areas and head to the septic drain field for water, grubs and worms. A well set trap there catches a mole a week. Just before the crane fly larva start to proliferate in the late summer I poison to stop the raccoons from tearing up the yard. A week or two and the raccoons quit digging and the moles leave also. Not a perfect system but it keeps yard damage to a minimum. The trap in a previous post looks like it would work also!
Following as we have a mole issue in our yard area. Over 25 years here at this location and these little varmints had to show up There is 80 acres for them and they have to make my already “not smooth” lawn mowing job worse!!
We have a few moles but they must not be bad as we don't have tunnel problems in the yard. Seems like the neighborhood cat population is down (at least the ones that get prison release hours) and the mole and vole population is up. Luckily not by a lot. One thing I did a few years ago was I put up about a dozen pheromone beetle traps (those traps worked for about three years) and caught bazillions of beetles . Skunks also go after the grubs and we didn't have skunk holes for quite a while. Now this could all be coincidental and one big beautiful non sequitur , but there it is.
I am a trustee for a small township cemetery & the moles & gophers are ridiculous. We tried the little giant smoke bombs & that seemed to make them worse. We have a local lawn care place treat it 2-4 times a year with poison gummies in the ground. Works for about a month or so then the little priks are back at it. We treated the last 2 years for cicada larvae, the skunks were tearing the sod up everywhere. It’s an ongoing battle & the priks are hard to get rid of. Anhydrous works but it’s really not applicable in scenario. We use it in hay fields to suffocate them.
Carpet bomb the area with traps, I have close to a hundred OOS traps like metalcuttr. Drown them. Or, gas them, the local feed store should have 25 pound bags of flake sulfur. Open a run and toss in a handful of sulfur. Use a weed burger to get the sulfur burning and blowing into the tunnel complex. You will start to see the yellow smoke come up out of the ground. Gently step down the openings to help contain the gas. When the last bit of sulfur is just about done stomp the hill down to trap the gas. Then move on to the next tunnel complex and repeat. This is not the same as the commercial M-80 looking gas bombs which are more of an aphrodisiac than anything. This bulk sulfur is pure nastiness, you’ll know soon enough if you try this method. Owl
After speaking so knowledgeably about moles in a previous post.....I woke up this morning to two huge incursions about 12 ft or more each into our yard. Both of my highway sets were bypassed. One the mole went around and the other went deeper. I reset them both and added several more. Also took my hand compactor and flattened all the bulges in the yard. Apparently the yearly declaration of war has been made!
Got that mole! Late last night I noticed that the deep set trap was sprung. Checked this morning and had caught a great big one......it takes so little to thrill me
I have occasionally considered a cottage industry where I could meld two pests that we have here in the NW. I could trap moles and the huge Slimy Banana Slugs that eat our gardens. Skin them both and I could make fur lined slippers! Get it? Mole skin on the inside and the slippery, slimy slug skin ........Oh never mind!
I've been using this stuff for a few years and it seems to work. Repellex 7 lb. Mole and Gopher Granular Repellent at Tractor Supply Co I reapply whenever I see activity which is every two months or so. Also, make sure you have moles, not voles. I fought a losing battle at my former home trying to kill or deter moles when it turned out I had a vole problem. Mouse poison will take care of voles.
Looked out this morning and trap #1 on the mole hyway was sprung. 5th mole since I started trapping July 5th with 3 traps. There has been no more lawn damage from moles but the raccoons have started little test holes looking for crane fly grubs. I sprayed poison 3 days ago for the crane fly grubs and other subterranean insects like mole crickets. Watered it in well so the rabbits won't get sick. One more spray and the raccoon activity should decrease and hopefully the moles also.
