MOLES?

[gsn]

Okay we have had gopher wars,rat wars,how about MOLE wars?

Here in Florida I have never heard of gophers,at least not the furry type?We do have an animal called a gopher,but it is a turtle,which is protected and no harm to the garden usually.No rat problem here even in all the sabal palms around. We do have the rats with bushy tails(squirrels),but again usually not a problem except for seedlings.

What we do have are MOLES,and I seem to be holding a convention for them lately!

I have looked around for someway to control these critters and am losing the battle.I have traps,don't seem to work? I have tried flooding them out,didn't help,someone told me to try human hair around the beds,doesn't work. These guys can get in a mulched bed and overnight have the ground churned into a pile of criss crosing tunnels,plowing in and around the roots and trunks of palms and other plants,can't be good for the roots? They also can tear up a St Augustine lawn pretty damn well,but it seems they like the mulched beds the best,only using the lawn to get to them!

As best I understand they eat the grubs and worms ,and not the roots of the plants,however I'm pretty sure that having air pockets all around the roots of the palms from their tunneling can't be good? I have heard that if you kill the grubs, worms and other insects they eat  they will leave?

But I have been trying to get the grubs,and worms, going in the beds by amending the soil, and mulching,to improve the soil. Must be doing a halfway decent job of that, because  the moles seem to think my yard is MOLE heaven!

Has anyone in Florida ,or where there are MOLES found a way to rid their yards of these pests? I'm definitely losing the WAR! HELP !

[GREENHAND]

I have had some luck getting rid of them at my lake house in central tx, no 1  i purchased mole pellets, just find a fresh tunnel poke a hole in it and pour some in the hole it is like rat poison, also if you do two things if you get rid of the grubs that is there food so use granulated grub control, also if you heavly ferlilize i mean put it down HEAVY they dont like it , it might be the taste or it could burn ther skin or something,ood luck

[Cycadcenter]

You may want to look into this product:

http://www.gemplers.com/pestmgmt/wildlifec...ole/134528.html

Bruce

[DoomsDave]

Moles are a bit of a nuisance, but at least they don't destroy your plants.

A gulf course dude uses mole traps with a spear from the top that gets them right in their burrows.

You cal also throttle ones you see with a shovel . . .

dave