Home Remedies for Controlling, Repelling, Getting Rid of Moles….Why Don’t They Work?

There isn’t a lot of home remedies that truly work at solving problems.  Usually they stem from something someone tried years and years ago and it spread to being from tried to working…Kind of like the sentence game many of us have played.  Take a line of 20 people and tell the sentence to the first one in line quietly and have him repeat the same sentence to the next person in line and by the 20^th person it usually isn’t exactly what it was when first said.  Many of the home remedies you hear about for removal of moles are just not worth trying.  Juicy Fruit Gum for moles…doesn’t work..moles have teeth that are designed to eat meat…they don’t have molars to chew with and can’t chew the gum let alone try to swallow it…It doesn’t work….Or how about using your car or an engines exhaust hooked up to a hose and “pumped” into the ground.  A mole can travel 80 feet per minute in tunnel already dug so when they sense the gas coming in the tunnel they know their tunnel system like we know our roads and head to other areas of the tunnel and likely head to the one that goes deeper where safety is….gas, especially hot gas like exhaust goes up……not down….the mole waits til the gas fumes are gone and then comes back up.  How about human hair in the mole runs…moles don’t know humans and hair isn’t going to deter them.  Broken Glass….the only thing that broken glass does is cut my hands if I am not wearing gloves when setting mole traps.  Castor Oil spread on lawn will remove moles is a big myth.  Castor oil makes the ground stink for a couple inches…the mole just goes deeper until it wears off and comes right back up…it doesn’t chase the mole away.  Grub control for mole control does nothing since the primary food source of moles is worms…NOT grubs.  How about windmills…the vibration actually brings worms to the surface and in turn attracts moles not repels them.

The correct solution to get rid of a mole is trapping them..That is what we do at TRapper’s Wildlife Control….We guarantee to kill moles and run the service of trapping them.  Visit www.CallTheMoleTrapper.com for more information..  Visit our FAQ page on moles…Watch the Mole Video Page and under the Wildlife Tab click on the Mole Page and you will learn more about this fascinating creature called The Mole

Lines in Yard or Lawn? How to kill moles and voles around Des Moines

Who is seeing lines like this in their lawn?  Guess What.......?  These are not Moles....but rather Voles.  Voles are a mouse-like animal that is more brown in color and its head is more rounded and chunky compared to a mouse.  They generally are outside animals and this damage you see above this post, shows what they do.  They tunnel through the grass under the snow in the winter time and their high energy movement creates "lines" in the yard. The snow is their protective cover in the winter time and when it melts they are forced to retreat back to their spring haunts like landscaping islands, rock walls, kids swing sets that have mulch or sand, etc.  they will create den entrance holes close to what people refer to as "snake" holes.  But we all know that snakes DO NOT dig holes.  Voles damage the lawn by digging out the grass below the dirts surface and eating the grass closer to the root.  Their droppings are usually green in color and will be just bigger than mice droppings. 

The pictures you see above were taken today, March 9, 2015 in lawns that TRapper's Wildlife Control is currently servicing.   Voles, once they have taken up residence in your lawn, won't go away once spring comes in but they will reuse those tunnels again once the grass gets more thicker and taller.  Trapping really is the only solution.  While trapping will remove the resident voles, it will not get rid of the animal for good in your lawn.  Anyone who tells you they can permanently keep voles away is a Liar.  Population control of the current animals in your lawn is the correct solution.

Visit www.CallTheTrapper.com/voles.html to see more information about voles

Moles are also very active and TRapper caught the first mole in a new clients lawn today, march 9th, only 5 minutes after setting 5 traps.  here is the pic of that mole seconds after it was caught.  Most moles TRapper catches are within the first 24 hours after he sets traps.  visit www.CallTheMoleTrapper.com to find out more information

 

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