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We have a mole problem this year it seems. Snow is gone and we have all these tunnels thru yards. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get rid of them. I can't believe a little mole can do that much damage in a lawn.

Play Whack-A-Mole with them...

Last year we put grub control on ours and it got rid of them. Moles eat grubs. But have to do it again this year....they are back!

I find GrubX in the stores but nothing else, I need to treat a half acre. Does anyone know a source for a cheaper/generic anti-grub product that works?
Thanks,

Check out the pest control products on Gemplers website. Or try dynamite moles are a tough nail to bend.

Coyote pee works and can be bought at a farm store

Just get a mallet and play Whack-A-Mole. :smile:

I have a mole that keeps making tunnels and exposing dirt In my yard. (That dirt then supports weeds)

I used mole traps but have not had success for 2 years. Very difficult to catch. This year I resulted in using Dylox to manage the white grub food source. This is a "backed by bayer" product and was purchased @ John Deere Landscapes. It has worked so far and have not seen a tunnel for a month.

I am a home owner with zoysia and it's level, right up until that mole gets active!

lawnbarbers said:

We have a mole problem this year it seems. Snow is gone and we have all these tunnels thru yards. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get rid of them. I can't believe a little mole can do that much damage in a lawn.

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Tis aeration for free!

We (.au) have bandicoots,,, well, those lucky enough.
Mostly they have been wiped out by sugarcane fires over many years.
Put the hoe to a few myself in my time. Dogs love 'em too.

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The description is not correct as they have short fat tails, the only
way to identify them over a rat, at speed.

Today we (our place) encourage them, leaving fruit and vege for them
at dusk... after the Ibis and bloody Indian Minors have gone to bed.
Last year I ran a leveller over the yard before mowing the worst affected.
Then again we (.au) just worry about keeping the lawn flat and the weeds
down, going for a round or two of golf if a desire to walk on turf rises.

Moles are blind, yeh?
That baitin' control is a bit of rough play then, hey?

I have been thinking of using a quickie adapter off my X-One exhaust, and using a 1.5 flexhose at idle speed to gas them with carbon monoxide.
The uplift on my mulcher 54 pretty much levels out the mound, and then it takes just a minute of hand grubbing to expose a decent downhole.
So should I?..... or shouldn't I?

I saw this natural way to repel them Mole Control ? Castor Oil | Walter Reeves: The Georgia Gardener but haven't tried it yet. I did get a deal on a liter of castor oil so i am anxious to try it.

As states, moles eat grubs mainly, and that became apparent to me when last year for about 2 weeks bugs swarmed our yard, flying in circles all around the yard, about 1' off of the grass. We thought they were wasps and wouldn't go out there or let the kids play. Then we noticed they were June Bugs, which is the adult stage of a grub. Their life cycle is simple, they mate, lay eggs in the ground, where they are susceptible to certain pesticides temporarily, but once the ground gets cold they burrow lower to stay warm for the winter, then they move back in the spring/summer and eat roots and etc. Moles hunt them for food, destroying your lawn.

I have tried poison peanuts, which some people say works well, but so far I've not seen any headway. I bought one of the little sonic things that basically vibrates once a minute deep in the ground to try and scare them away or prevent them from nesting close, but it's been a week, so far nothing. Last year I sat on the back porch with a 12 gauge shotgun about dawn and just waited to see them move, but I must have been to noisy because I never located any of them.

Trapping them with the prong style spear traps is the only luck I have had, and I only caught 2 last year, out of what I would estimate a possible 12 going about my yard.

Farm supply stores also sell poison worms that are supposed to work well, but I can't give much feedback there. I put out 3 of them out of a box of 12 last year, but I'm not sure if helped as they are all back this year.

As for the Grub-Ex. I put out 3 bags after the swarm, and this year swarming was minimal (it just happened in the last week or two) but the moles are still occupying my yard. I am at the point where I really just want to pour a 5 gal container of gasoline down the holes and light the yard on fire... If only.

Here's wishing you luck in your trials. Those little things are hard to stop!