My War Resumes
 

With the moles and voles. They are like the Viet Cong. I chase them into Cambodia and Laos, they run then sneak back across the border and dig tunnels and trails. Little bastards. Today I Grub Ex'ed the entire yard and put pellets down in the fresh runs I could find. Tomorrow we hit them with the poison worms and stinky garlic shit. I will bomb them into the stone age.

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voles are a pain but done do real damage. The grass comes back.

Moles....yeah. Kill them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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We had a bad case of the little bastards a few years ago. I'm pretty sure they came from my hillbilly neighbor's yard. We couldn't use the pellets due to our dogs, but the garlic stuff and the poison we got from a friend of mine in the extermination biz did the trick. About 2 years later I could see the runs starting to develop in hillbilly's yard, but they never came back here. I don't know if he got them or the invisible fence drove them back because they stopped about 6 feet from the fence.

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The stinky garlic shit. Is that Phostoxin? If it is be the **** careful with that shit. It’ll dead you just like it will them. Nose upwind fool.

Ask Drew Brees

Get rid of those lazy cats and get yourself one of these.

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I have a gopherhawk that works well with moles as well.

Maybe release some shrews. They raid my garage mouse traps for dead mice, and drag off trap and mouse. Wait, maybe it's voles...
Edit: yep, vole. To thick bodied for a mouse trap to snap the neck

I got rid of mine 10 yrs ago with a dog. She died. They started coming back the past few years. They come in from the pastures.

I've done the bait, different types of traps etc.

I sat my car in the front lawn with a pipe from the exhaust into the main run. A neighbor reported a strange car running in a lawn and sicced the cops on my house. It was like a SWAT raid. They crept up the back stairs into our bedroom as well as the driveway. I admitted to intent to kill...MOLES.

A farmer told me to sit in the yard with a pitch fork and wait for the ground to move. I wasted 2 hours.

I was looking at getting a Jack Russel. My wife doesn't want another dog.

I plan on renting a trencher to outline my lawn 1-2 ft deep and put in chicken wire or something similar. Keep those bastards out in the field.

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A Jack Russell would do the trick.

My chocolate lab digs the ****in things up all over the place and brings them all to the front porch.
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I had a bad mole or vole prob years ago, back when I gave **** about my back yard and my dog hadn't made it look like ww1 france. The spiky cleats attached to my work boots in conjunction with the poison worked well. I had a couple years of pretty nice grass there, then I got a husky and my entire back yard got destroyed from the digging, wolf strength piss, zoomies, and the occasional steamer. This was from a dog that got at a minimum of a two mile walk every day and had 90% of his bathroom time on said walks. You have a way bigger yard than mine I'm guessing being in independence so the cleats may not be an option. maybe a rolly spikey thing plus the poison.

We had them for a few years and not a whole lot seemed to help until the Mrs put a couple of metal wind spinners in the yard....someone told her that the vibration in the ground bothers them and they go away....haven't had an issue the past couple years.

I opened this expecting a pizza boy KO’d on the lawn.

Grubs are the food source that attracts moles. Putting down anti-grub stuff from The Grasspad fixed the mole problem for me.

Just wait until the armadillos move in.

I have battled these bastards since last spring. Set traps poison pellets and grubex. Nothing has worked even in dead of winter had fresh mounds of dirt. I need to get a dog since I got married and had kids no dogs per wife who won't allowed inside and I won't keep one outside in the bitter cold. I didn't have moles when I had dogs so maybe can the wife lol.

Bleh, moles and voles are pussies compared to what a badger will do to your yard.

They're coming to get you George

They're ****ing destroying my fields as we speak.

As a lawn care professional, you wasted money putting on Grub Ex. Just because you have moles, doesn’t mean you even have a single grub in your lawn. Plus it doesn’t even work this time of year on grubs. Basically the only thing you can do for moles is poison or traps.


If you have voles, try an old fashioned wood and spring mouse trap. Put some peanut butter on it to attract them. Works like a charm.

I feel ya gblowfish. I have been battling the bastards for 2-3 years and have pretty much given up. Though I might have figured at least part of my problem out, I noticed since we stop feeding the birds I haven't had a new run\whole for 3 weeks at least. So I googled that and I guess bird food does attract moles.

That's really weird because I've had other lawn care professionals tell me Grub Ex is key because grubs is what they like to eat. And the Scott's bag says "put down in early spring" which is now. Hard to know what to do when four out of five doctors can't agree on anything.

I compare them to the Viet Cong because I border with seven other houses. When I get rid of them they just run over to my neighbor's yard and wreck it. Then eventually they come back over into my yard. Pisses me off man.

I have had them and what always works is a flood.

The best thing I had for moles was my dog. My dog was a whippet and wanted to play with them and would chase them until they literally died from exhaustion or a heart attack.

There were multiple advantages to this method. My dog got to play with short term friends, my dog had plenty of exercise, reduced population of the varmits that led to none of them, and I didn't have to do anything but let the dog outside!

My kitty Otis (named after Otis Taylor) is da bomb!

I have this neighbor who used to tend softball fields. He swears by sticking Juicy Fruit gum down the holes...stick at a time...wait to see if taken and then do it again until the gum stops being taken. He says it gunks up their intestines and kills them. I'd love to know if this actually works. Just googled. Leave the aluminum wrappers on.

I went to Lowes and bought some of those battery powered spikes that omit a beeping noise ever 30 seconds or so. I have a pretty good sized backyard, and the spikes are supposed to cover like 10k square feet. I bought 4. My yard ain't that big, but I figured screw it.

Mixed results. Seems like they have worked in the past, but I notice in the early spring some new runs in the lower part of my yard. Maybe the little shits got used to the sound...but it's still not as bad as it used to be.

My problem is mice in the shed. Had some of those spinner traps which worked really well with peanut butter, but this last 4 or 5 months, nothing. And I know the little bastards are in there cuz I've actually seen them. Grrrr...

I saw something about a 5 gal bucket with a teeter tooter lid that dropped them in. Dunno.

I am renting a trencher this weekend and lay some sort of metal fencing in the trench. I will let you know later this year if it worked.

As to killing the grubs, I read that killing the grubs would also kill the earth worms, which is the main diet of moles. I don't want dead worms.

The only real solution that I have come across is a dog and trapping. My problem with traps is finding a reliable run (highway) that they use. Yes, straight, no meandering, step on the tunnel and see if it is pushed back up the next day. Tough to monitor on 2 acres on a daily basis.

One other option that worked. I hired a trapper. Done within a week.

I put the Victor spikes in the ground last year. I thought they were working for awhile but darned if those moles ran tunnels within a foot of them in my front and back yard.

I’ve heard about the sticks of gum working, has to be juicy fruit supposedly. This year I’m going to drop a few sticks of gum and poisoned worms in the tunnels. Take that you bitches.

I haven’t had any luck with those pellets I think I’m just feeding them with that fraud product.

Maybe this will help you feel better
 

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Ok, I have to say I am trippin' right now - I live in Louisiana so we do not see those varmints, can not imagine. Here we have water moccasins, alligators, racoons, armadillos and opossum too. Moth balls usually does the trick - LOL!

I came home to a mole that had ran rampant through my front yard today.

I ended up flushing the bastard out with a water hose. After realizing I didn't have any way of dispatching him besides drowning or a 9mm bullet, he got his lucky day and was relocated to the country.

What's the best way of dealing with these things? I've tried poison worms and pellets, I've used those spike traps, and I've even tried gassing them.

Pitchfork get out before sunup. As the sun rises look for the signs of digging then stab them and uncover them. My dad did that to great success. It's usually one of two doing the damage. I have never had success with the peanuts chewing gum various traps. But seeing them move in runs below the surface and a pitchfork sure works.

Also, a dog helps.