Easy mole control

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Radio interview source: Stephen Vantassel, wildlife damage management expert, Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management

We had moles digging tunnels our yard one year, and were ready to start trapping when they disappeared. Moles are weird that way. They're pretty weird-looking too. Their front feet are like baseball mitts with claws.

I'm amazed at the different things people use to get rid of moles, like broken glass, moth balls, ultrasonic devices, and castor oil.

Stephen Vantassel is a wildlife damage management expert, and says trapping is the most effective control method. But, if you'd rather not see the effects, put out a poison.

For it to work, it has to be presented in a way that the moles will recognize as food. For instance, they love to dine on earthworms.

"A product known as Talpirid uses a toxicant inside basically a gummy worm that you would need to place into the soil and follow directions," Vantassel says. "And then there's another product out there done up by Scimetrics. It's more of a goo, and you would squirt that into the tunnel system and I believe the idea is as the mole goes through it, he'll get it on his fur and then he grooms himself, and then he consumes the toxicant that way."

My friend, Scott, used the worms and had good results.