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Damn Moles in Garden
gregw
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Anyone know how to get rid of em? Little sons o bit__es ate all my peas...had to replant them the other day. Any help??????
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Go to a barber and he will gladly give you a bag.
heard you can shove human hair into their holes to run them off.
Go to a barber and he will gladly give you a bag.
Who's going to hold their little legs apart?
Lancee
They will usually show movement in the early evening or early mornings.
quote:Originally posted by JustC
I heard juicy fruit gum in their holes kills them[?]
Here again LMAO who is going to stick the gum in their holes?
quote:Originally posted by JustC
I heard juicy fruit gum in their holes kills them[?]
Won't it stick to their little hairs before you get in their little holes?[:0]
Now, you might have gophers, and the best cure (most fun) for those is a 22.
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2. A young, hungry cat will hunt them at night. If he's like our cat, he'll eat half and bring the other half in for you. Not bad grilled with a little Texas Pete.
1. Insecticide will kill the grubs they feed on, and they'll leave.
+1 get rid of their food supply and they will leave
into the ground. It has a bead in it that rattles whenever the
wind blows the windmill around. It drives them out of your
yard. Can't stand the noise. Also they have a solar one now,
you put into the ground that emits an intermittent noise they
hate. They'll move to your neighbors yard.[:)]
Dug up a whole nest of them little bass turds last month.
Or you could dig it up, shove the hoze from a bottle of azetylene down the hole and give it a fast and big whiff with that. (no oxygen!!!)
That works too.
Neighbour once dug up a new mounds and gave it a big blast of both oxygen and azetylene - then threw the butt of his cigar from a distance (after he shut off and cleared the hoses).
That ripped up half the garden in one big boom. Probably took the durn critter too, never found it and never had problems after that.
If you use some sort of gas - make sure it gets down there fast or it has time to close off the tunnel.
If you use poison - make sure you don't touch it with your skin/hands. They'll smell it and close off the tunnel and keep on diggin' somewhere in the garden.
AT
Just drop the Exlax in the tunnels and the little meanies poop their brains out and die, no poison problem if a pet gets a hold of a dead one.
He doesn't eat them, he just chews them up some, then leaves them in the yard.
They are attracted to the spearmint and will eat it. Rodents cannot digest chewing gum, they cannot regurgitate, the gum ends up setting up in the stomach causing blockage. The mole will eventually die of intestinal compaction, some would call it deadly constipation.
Moles are carnivores. they have the highest metabolism of any animal in the world, they must eat 24-7. Grubs are only a small part of their diet. they eat more earthworms than any thing since there are many more of them in your soil. They wiil eat slugs, centipedes, billbugs, whatever they can get their paws on. They are solitary, and do not have set tunnels like ground hogs. Poison baits are hit and miss since moles normally won't eat any thing that appears dead. You must kill them by means of traps, or a good dog or cat. Push down their tunnels with your feet and then look for the new ones that pop up, place the traps around the new tunnels. Hopefully a mole will run into one your traps. Traps are successful maybe 20% of the time. Good luck!
And there in lies the biggest problem, the OP is complaining about something eating his PLANTS, and only a couple people on this thread have mentioned that MOLES don't eat plants. Now, if the OP would FORGET about MOLES and concintrate on what's eating his PLANTS.......
seed beds. They eat seed corn and plant roots. Most of the
direct injury is mechanical due to heaving up the plants, damaging
the roots and cutting off their supply of moisture.
I found the mole chaser, windmill thingy I was telling you about.
www.rabunmetal.com/mole Some place in Tiger Ga makes it.
1-706-782-4224. We've had lots of wind lately, and my little
windmill has been turning like crazy...which is what I want the
little old moles to do...go so crazy they move to the neighbors.[:)]