Moles! Help needed please

[Harry Smith]

God knows how a mole problem turned into I have the hottest girlfriend/wife..

Sounds like some of you could challenge this guy for punching above your station award!!

She's got no legs

[murkeywaters]

She's got no legs

Must of got mashed up in your medieval mole trap..

[Kirk280]

First we had the Ibernian kitten strangler.

Now we have a medieval mole murderer!

[wildheart]

Tried two days of chilli it’s not deterring the little brute


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[wildheart]

Me in a few weeks time!


https://youtu.be/5NlQiQfC4zQ


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[sickie]

It gets better. Believe it or not he actually won a million quid on the lottery recently.

He's from the North East and was in the local rag.

PS

Please don't kill Mr mole

God knows how a mole problem turned into I have the hottest girlfriend/wife..

Sounds like some of you could challenge this guy for punching above your station award!!

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[sickie]

Very fine Sneezing powder maybe?

Tried two days of chilli it’s not deterring the little brute


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[Fschwep]

Turn your lawn into a veggy garden. The mole will help aerate the soil. Assuming it's a real mole that is, not a molerat. The latter are the real destroyers. They eat roots of almost any plant from te bottom upwards. We lost several young fruit trees to them and sometimes whole rows of veggies disappeared over a few days at they drew them down into ground to eat them.
You can distinguish the two by their mounds: a real mole digs with its paws and will also push up any pebbles, chunks of rock etc. with the dirt. So the mound will contain some rocks, usually, and will be lumpy. Molerats chew the earth with their teeth and push out just relatively fine-grained earth. They also start from the top and dig down near things they want to eat from below - such as a nice young fruit tree. Molerats proliferate like, well, rats and when unchecked can destroy whole farming pastures.
Poison never helps, it just kills their natural predators as well, and not in a nice way. We had a cat here once that got paralyzed and agonized for a day at the vet's practice before it finally died.

The only thing that keeps molerats under control is predators. Cats, hermines, weasels, ferrets and so on. Foxes mostly live on molerats and similar rodents, they are farmers' best friends (just take care to protect your chickens). But humans change the landscape, by cutting down hedgerows and enlarging fields. Easier for tractors so they can harvest more hay, corn or whatever. They think. But natural furry predators don't venture out more than about 50 meters from protective bush into a field to hunt. Meaning that in large fields of more than 100 m in every direction, the rodents are safe from most predators in the middle of the terrain and start eating away at it from there. Ater which they can destroy hectare after hectare of pasture or corn or whatever in record time.

The veggie garden idea is not a joke. A lawn is just a lawn, you can't eat it. A mole may push your veggies aside a bit but won't destroy them, and indeed, will keep the soil loose and provide rain capture. They are also pretty territorial about their tunnels and attack molerats that try to use them. Kill the mole, and you offer free access to a tunnel network under your plants to the molerats, and see your veggies or decorative plant beds being destroyed.

In the end, get a hunting cat or two. They will catch the buggers and keep their numbers down. The only downside is, sometimes your cat will bring in a molerat or whatever rodent it has caught, and eat it right in your living room or, scrunch, on your bed. I speak from experience. Of course only at night when you are actually sleeping in that bed. Cosier that way.

We live rural and our property is very rocky, we have a pact with mr and mrs Mole that we harvest the loose dirt from their mounds to help planting things, as we are always short of earth to fill pots or planting holes with. They loosen up the earth and chase out molerats. Apart from that our half dozen talented hunting cats are the seek-and-destroy special forces detachment. The owner of the pasture next to us must be glad, his field is almost pristine now, and our next-door neighbour who has a huge veggie garden told us he is quite happy to see our cats hunting there - they sometimes leave a killed molerat out for him to see.

[Sweepinghand]

Not read all the thread....

Get a cat - my two year old loves to catch a mole - yep - digs them out - sits for hours if there’s one about

Killer queen


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[Kingstepper]

Turn your lawn into a veggy garden. The mole will help aerate the soil. Assuming it's a real mole that is, not a molerat. The latter are the real destroyers. They eat roots of almost any plant from te bottom upwards. We lost several young fruit trees to them and sometimes whole rows of veggies disappeared over a few days at they drew them down into ground to eat them.
You can distinguish the two by their mounds: a real mole digs with its paws and will also push up any pebbles, chunks of rock etc. with the dirt. So the mound will contain some rocks, usually, and will be lumpy. Molerats chew the earth with their teeth and push out just relatively fine-grained earth. They also start from the top and dig down near things they want to eat from below - such as a nice young fruit tree. Molerats proliferate like, well, rats and when unchecked can destroy whole farming pastures.
Poison never helps, it just kills their natural predators as well, and not in a nice way. We had a cat here once that got paralyzed and agonized for a day at the vet's practice before it finally died.

The only thing that keeps molerats under control is predators. Cats, hermines, weasels, ferrets and so on. Foxes mostly live on molerats and similar rodents, they are farmers' best friends (just take care to protect your chickens). But humans change the landscape, by cutting down hedgerows and enlarging fields. Easier for tractors so they can harvest more hay, corn or whatever. They think. But natural furry predators don't venture out more than about 50 meters from protective bush into a field to hunt. Meaning that in large fields of more than 100 m in every direction, the rodents are safe from most predators in the middle of the terrain and start eating away at it from there. Ater which they can destroy hectare after hectare of pasture or corn or whatever in record time.

The veggie garden idea is not a joke. A lawn is just a lawn, you can't eat it. A mole may push your veggies aside a bit but won't destroy them, and indeed, will keep the soil loose and provide rain capture. They are also pretty territorial about their tunnels and attack molerats that try to use them. Kill the mole, and you offer free access to a tunnel network under your plants to the molerats, and see your veggies or decorative plant beds being destroyed.

In the end, get a hunting cat or two. They will catch the buggers and keep their numbers down. The only downside is, sometimes your cat will bring in a molerat or whatever rodent it has caught, and eat it right in your living room or, scrunch, on your bed. I speak from experience. Of course only at night when you are actually sleeping in that bed. Cosier that way.

We live rural and our property is very rocky, we have a pact with mr and mrs Mole that we harvest the loose dirt from their mounds to help planting things, as we are always short of earth to fill pots or planting holes with. They loosen up the earth and chase out molerats. Apart from that our half dozen talented hunting cats are the seek-and-destroy special forces detachment. The owner of the pasture next to us must be glad, his field is almost pristine now, and our next-door neighbour who has a huge veggie garden told us he is quite happy to see our cats hunting there - they sometimes leave a killed molerat out for him to see.

No (wild) molerats here. Surprised that you have them in France TBH.

[wildheart]

Not read all the thread....

Get a cat - my two year old loves to catch a mole - yep - digs them out - sits for hours if there’s one about

Killer queen


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Is she for hire please?


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[sickie]

I genuinely lol'd. I can feel the desperation setting in.

Is she for hire please?


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[wildheart]

Losing my war against this little bugger. Poured about 5 gallons of castor oil & garlic down the little swines tunnels, but as with Jasper Carrot the little sod seems to like it. There’s more curry powder under my lawn than at the local Tandoori.
The gloves are off now and have started laying traps. He pushes them out of the way. So have so Bavarian traps on the way from the old enemy, hoping they will do the trick.
The local pest control want £300 just to lay a trap or two, so I’ll give it ago myself.


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[Saint-Just]

I think he got it...

[oldoakknives]

Losing my war against this little bugger. Poured about 5 gallons of castor oil & garlic down the little swines tunnels, but as with Jasper Carrot the little sod seems to like it. There’s more curry powder under my lawn than at the local Tandoori.
The gloves are off now and have started laying traps. He pushes them out of the way. So have so Bavarian traps on the way from the old enemy, hoping they will do the trick.
The local pest control want £300 just to lay a trap or two, so I’ll give it ago myself.


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Unfortunately the horrible stuff poured in his/her tunnels is probably just a nuisance/annoyance. A mole can't just up sticks and move, they depend on their tunnels to find worms etc for food, and out of their tunnels they are pretty vulnerable and defenceless to predators. So they will do their best not to move. It would be nice to think you could rehome them, but catching them (alive) is not easy.

https://www.primrose.co.uk/humane-mole-trap-p-1923.html

[Rod]

My mate is a professional mole catcher. I've been out with him a few times in the Wensleydale countryside. He mainly operates for the farmers because the soil they churn up creates high sugar levels and of it gets into the cows silage it can be bad news.
He uses spring loaded traps and says it's an instant kill. He seems to be able to find where to trap them in a couple of minutes using a steel pole plunged into the burrow.
He's never failed to find the mole and says it's rare to find more than one operating. Any he kills, he throws them into the hedgerows back into the eco system.
It's an art on finding them!
If your in that beautiful part of the country he'd help.

Here's Dave with a caught mole in his hand



Even the cows were pleased and showed their appreciation...

[wildheart]

My mate is a professional mole catcher. I've been out with him a few times in the Wensleydale countryside. He mainly operates for the farmers because the soil they churn up creates high sugar levels and of it gets into the cows silage it can be bad news.
He uses spring loaded traps and says it's an instant kill. He seems to be able to find where to trap them in a couple of minutes using a steel pole plunged into the burrow.
He's never failed to find the mole and says it's rare to find more than one operating. Any he kills, he throws them into the hedgerows back into the eco system.
It's an art on finding them!
If your in that beautiful part of the country he'd help.

I wish I was in that beautiful Part of England Rod. Unfortunately I’m in Essex, but we are pretty rural. I back onto a farm, hence am plagued by these creatures. I watched hours of u tube footage from professional catchers, when my traps arrive I hope to have a good go at catching the beast!


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[Kirk280]

Would it be possible / practical to bury a fine plastic mesh barrier in the soil at the boundary of your garden and the farm? Can moles chew through such barriers? How deep can a mole dig?

Alternatively just hire a mini-digger and replace the lawn with a pond. That’ll teach the mole!

[Rod]

Just found a couple of pics to my last post which I took when we were out moleing last

[wildheart]

Got him!!!!! I hate killing things, but this little brute did so much damage...look at the earth he moved!

Thanks to all who chipped in with advice, especially Henry. I did not need the medieval trap but its there if another decides to pitch up.
I'm sure he did not suffer, but he had to go..I tried everything to move him on humanly.

[guinea]

Well done.

The mole catcher at my local golf course had already pulled out 17 last wednesday morning as I passed him with loads more traps to check.

They were doing a lot of damage around the greens.

[Alpha4]

I hate killing things too. So I don't.

[mikeveal]

You need a specialist tool to get rid of moles.

[Seamaster73]

You need a specialist tool to get rid of moles.

Jolyon Maugham?

[mikeveal]

I dunno, it might work for him too.

[Owren]

Are ultrasonic pest repellers effective against moles? I know they work great against mice but not sure of moles. What I like about them is that these devices are relatively cheap and don't hurt animals.

[wildheart]

Are ultrasonic pest repellers effective against moles? I know they work great against mice but not sure of moles.

In one word ‘No’ save your money and invest in a good trap. I bought six types of trap, found tunnel & Bavarian trap the best.


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