I actually have blasted one with my 20 gauge! Of course I was at home in a walking boot with nothing to do. Just waited at a fresh hole til he started moving dirt! Blammo!
Yep, that takes a lot of patients, quiet, and maybe a few beers while you pay close attention to ground movement. I saw movement once and jumped on that spot with my shoe heel....got him by squishing his guts. Whatever it takes....
In addition to grubs, moles love earthworms. However, earthworms are good for your lawn. I use a company that puts poison bait in the trails and a granular preventive chemical to keep the moles out of the yard. So far, so good.
Must be something good under my grass for them to keep returning yr after yr. I used to pick up lots night crawlers in the spring after a heavy rain to use for walleye bait....
If using the "gasoline explosion" method, use 93 octane or higher for best results. Hey, at least the dude, his wife, or kids were cool enough to post that...
The two best things I've found that are low maintenance are as follows: 1: Mix a 4oz bottle of caster oil and 8oz of dish washing liquid into a hose-attached yard sprayer. Liberally cover the yard with it. It is safe for your pets and children once dried. Every time I've used this, you could see the moles make a bee line away from my yard. Not sure how it works but it does. Maybe it makes the grubs taste bad or it give them the runs. 2: Plant caster bean plants around your property. They won't burrow near them. If you let them grow to produce seeds, you can then just stuff a seed into any tunnel you find. They will leave that tunnel alone. The plants don't have to grow from the seeds to be effective.
On the grubs, typically you won’t kill them until summer when they come towards surface. Here in northeast, you put down grub killer in June.
I am over it, and just get used to the hills popping up all around. I have cat's but they can't get em if they are underground.
^^^ Sounds easy enough to try.... Or maybe something as simple as a six transistor radio playing a little Rock & Roll all day & all night long.
This works for woodchucks, maybe for moles. Dump household ammonia down the holes. Or spray the area? Apparently woodchucks have very sensitive sense of smell and the ammonia makes it unpleasant to stay in the area. Relatively cheap and safe except if you spray your yard may smell like a men's restroom in a dive bar for a few days. Repeat every other week or so until they get the hint that it isn't a pleasant place to stay.
While I haven't had the pleasure of having Moles. Not even sure they are in the state. But my parents did growing up. We used a trap like the Victor shown. One of our neighbors just waited very quietly on his porch. Until he saw one moving then took it out with a long screwdriver. Tim
...you'll get more bang for the buck with regular, octane slows combustion. Higher octane is safer to light, not necessarily safe but safer. In the good ol' days of 100+ leaded, you could watch the flame front travel across the surface...
Well, no trap action yet. I've got a few poison worms out too. These little bastards seem to be surrounding my house, flower beds, even under the sidewalks & cement 3 car driveway. Travel to neighbors too. Annoying little guys.....
Moles are very territorial. It is most likely just a pair male n female. 2 moles can do a ton of damage Once u catch one place it back into the run this will deter others from moving in. I have had good luck with both the scissor traps and the worms. Lately we have been fighting more voles. Place mouse traps in both directions in the run and drill a hole through the trap and use a 10 penny nail to hold it firmly in the run so they can’t go under neath it. Place a 1/2 piece of 3 or 4” conduit over the mouse traps so they have to go over the traps like a tunnel. Works every time
Got back from gym and sizzors trap was sprung but no carcass. ....bummer. Looks like activity around poison worms. Have wait a day or two to dig it up and see if there's a kill. New activity in rear yard where no traps are.....figures