How to get rid of moles?

Of course, you can be pleased with the fact that the mole lives only in a high-quality fertile layer and therefore, if he chose your site, it means that the land on it is really suitable for the growth of all vegetables, flowers and other household crops. But you should not be delighted for a long time that this particular underground neighbor has chosen your garden or cottage. In just a week, it will turn your site into an open range of military operations. And although on the street the 21st century and technology have stepped far forward, the question of how to get rid of moles is still relevant.

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Moles and the fight against them

Country pests do not care who lives higher or lower, they conduct their life activities. Mole, in comparison with other mammals, can live in places where the content of carbon dioxide is high, because its blood contains twice as much hemoglobin. He is able to survive deep underground, and yet there the oxygen content is minimal. Here is what you need to know before the start of hostilities to resolve the issue of how to get rid of moles.

Moles settle in families

In a rare case, the mole comes alone. More often animals live in families, numbering from a few to tens. Therefore, if you notice the appearance of a mole on your site, then somewhere there is his family. This fact poses a very difficult task for us: to destroy not one mole, but a family, about the number of which you know nothing, as well as about the whereabouts. That is why the fight against moles must be effective.

Pests hibernate

Moles sleep peacefully in winter, like hedgehogs. They dig large burrows and set up a warm, small rookery. A den can be found by a large amount of land on the surface. It’s worthwhile to look for lairs on higher elevations - snow is falling there faster and they warm up faster in the spring sun.

Moles are developing violent activity on your site

Underground passages of animals consist of numerous tunnels and represent entire highways, mines and even halls underground. The passages on your site take hundreds and hundreds of meters, although they are located at a depth of only 5-20 cm in the most fertile layer. Moles can use tunnels repeatedly or vice versa 1 time. Therefore, you need to know how to get rid of moles, and act immediately to protect your territory from the invasion of pests.

Pest diet

The pest is not interested in vegetation; it can spoil the root system of plants only by its indirect activity. Such animals prefer to eat the larvae of worms and beetles. Moles are very fond of moist soil, in which larvae and earthworms are abundant.

Important! After rain, their moves are located close to the surface of the earth, but during the dry period they go inland - after the earthworms. This gives you the opportunity to understand where to look for animals when you decide to get rid of moles.

The mole has a strong body and legs.

Its wide front paws are turned outwards, they end with thick strong claws. Although they are blind, they still have extremely keen hearing and sense of smell. They have velvety fur, almost invisible ears, eyes, shortened hind, but very powerful front limbs, adapted for digging the ground.

Do not try to catch the mole with your hands: the animal can easily break out of your hands, no matter what effort you make, but at the same time it can seriously injure you, scratch it with powerful claws and bite.

Important! Moles move quickly enough.Their average speed is 5-6 km / h, so if the mole was still able to get out of the trap or jump out of your hands, or maybe just decided to walk a few meters through the fresh air, then you should not catch it, since you won’t be able to catch it, and within a few seconds he will go underground. Now you understand how difficult it can be to fight moles in your area.

Pests are very careful and reasonable.

Moles adapt to any terrain and will not allow themselves to dictate rules. Simply put, the mole will easily bypass the danger, especially in those cases when you use the same measures to eliminate the pest. Therefore, familiarize yourself with all the ways to get rid of moles, and alternate them if you could not get rid of one method.

Scale of defeat

Moles eat a lot, and if you remember that the animals come to the site as families, then, given the great need for food, you can get tremendous damage during the week, so we recommend that you immediately begin to study and apply methods of fighting moles.

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Mole control methods

Although moles cause serious damage to crops in the garden, destroy flowers in flower beds, and also harm the entire landscape design of the summer cottage, they nevertheless make a significant positive contribution to the soil of the garden:

1. Their numerous tunnels, mounds improve soil aeration, there is a drainage.
2. They also eat garden pests - larvae of garden centipedes, slugs, snails that gnaw roots and feed on plant leaves.

Important! Before you decide to get rid of moles, make sure that their number is really critical. Often enough scaring actions are enough for them to leave.

Scare

There are many facts suggesting that moles are afraid of various sounds and leave tens of meters from noisy territory. Homemade rattles, the noise of plastic bottles in the wind, and other noise machines that you can buy or make with your own hands can scare them.

The disadvantages of this method:

• Even if you decide to buy a repeller, the most expensive and effective (according to advertising), and used it, then you cannot know in which direction the animal will go. Perhaps to your neighbor or through the cottage to your relatives. Therefore, in carrying out this action, you do not quite noble.
• It is unrealistic to install noisy repelling devices for fighting moles throughout the country, therefore, having left one part of the cottage allotment, they will move to another.

Important! They say that if you make good noise, you can drive moles out with sharp and loud sounds, but you will wander around the site for days and knock lids and buckets, you won’t blow the whistle. Therefore, it is extremely ineffective, and pests can adapt to sounds.

Electronic repellers

The gardener stores offer ultrasonic, electronic repellers, with which you can also get rid of moles.

Important! These devices periodically emit vibrating sounds that excitingly affect the moles hearing aid, leaving them in a noisy place.

To determine the appropriate model, consider the following:

1. Electronic repellers come in different capacities, which is why vibrating sounds spread across the earth at different distances.
2. The number of repellers will depend on the size of your site and the capacity of the devices.
3. You can install the device in early spring and leave it until the end of the garden season.
4. The main advantage of using electronic repellers is the humane method of getting rid of pests. After the operation of such equipment, the moles do not die, but simply leave the site.
5. Such a device is inexpensive, since most models are developed in Russia.
6. The disadvantages of the device include its fragility, since it must be installed outdoors.The minus is also the stretching of the scare process, which can last several months.

Planting scare plants

These animals have a perfect sense of smell, which will help you reduce their number. Use in the fight against moles their sensitivity to certain aromas. Here are a few recommendations:

1. Black beans. Animals do not like black beans, so put them around the perimeter of your site and the moles will leave. You need to plant plants at a distance of 30 cm from each other, this will help you drive away uninvited guests.
2. Garlic and onion. Gardeners advise planting garlic and onions on the site, but this method will help you get rid of moles only for the period while the plants are on the site. As soon as you remove the plantings of garlic and onions, the moles will return.
3. Nuts. Oddly enough, but moles do not like nuts and are trying in every possible way to run away from them. You can, of course, plant a nut in a summer cottage, but the area of ​​deterrence will be very small, because you will not succeed in planting a whole garden with nuts.

Using repellent repellent scents

To combat moles, you can use repellents - substances that repel mammals, birds, insects, ticks. To help you get rid of moles, they should contain castor oil. It is necessary to spray them through all the mole tunnels.

Recommended Recipe:

1. Prepare a mixture of 2 tbsp. l liquid soap (dishwashing detergent) and 1 tbsp. castor oil.
2. Add 4.5 l of water to this mixture.
3. Shake the prepared mixture well and spray it on the surface of the soil along the rodent moves.

Important! The procedure must be repeated monthly throughout the entire garden season, and also after each rain.

Special remedies for moles

Pest control stores offer Mole Repellent. Manufacturer - German company Detia Degesch Gmbh. This tool is absolutely harmless to the environment and is a natural preparation in the form of yellow balls, consisting of an extract of lavender, essential oils, and various bioactive substances.

Important! It is recommended to lay such balls in rows on the soil surface or, deepening them by 20 cm (1 ball per 1 m2). It is not necessary to lay balls in the moles, since the animals have a very sensitive sense of smell and do not like the smell of lavender, this will be an obstacle to the laying of new tunnels on the site.

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Mole traps and traps

If you have only one animal, you can use a trap or a trap in the fight against it, but first of all, be sure to fence off the place where you installed the device so as not to get into it yourself, and also not to catch a relative in it.

There are several trap models:

1. The devices are made in the form of a pipe and two covers on the sides, but they work extremely poorly: the mole bypasses the traps, having discovered a foreign object on its territory. And he does not go into such a trap, because his whole path consists of pushing away from the rough walls of the earthen tunnel, and in the pipe of the trap the walls are smooth.
2. Mole traps: hole-sized diameter, rough surface inside, and special valves do not let the animal out. These traps are more efficient, but they cost more.

Important! Using a trap is not the most humane way, but one of the highest quality if the trap has the correct design. Standard mechanics will not work. It is necessary to install a trap directly into the animal’s shaft and sprinkle it with earth a little. Passing by, the mole touches the valve or spring and the trap is triggered. If everything was so perfect, then the traps would be snapped up like “hot cakes”, but the whole problem is that the device may not work or will work just to show the ground. And the mole is not so stupid as to go to certain death; most likely, he will bypass the trap in a new lateral or more deep mine.That means - you probably will not always succeed in getting rid of moles in this way.

Site Stripping Service Call

Special brigades can poison rats and mice, but to save you from moles is a problematic matter. It is all about the professionalism of the service workers, as a used drug, as well as in the system of tunnels of underground residents.

Important! If the service workers do everything right, then the problem will be solved in a few hours, if not, then the moles will only leave your site for a while, and then, as soon as it becomes safe in the holes, they will return.

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Folk remedies against moles

The fight against moles in the garden, as in the country, should be carried out without the use of any poisons, so try the following old, time-tested methods:

• pour balls of fresh pork or goat droppings into the animal’s moves;
• stick in mole heaps or near them stalks of bird cherry;
• pour herring brine or a mixture of kerosene with water into the moles;
• chopped gooseberry branches chop and bury together with manure in the tunnels of animals;
• many advise to pour cold or hot water into the tunnels corny, but this method has its drawbacks: getting rid of animals requires a significant amount of water, if you overdo it, the entire site will turn into a swamp, along with moles you will drive out worms that are useful for the soil.
• Finely chop the onion and garlic and fill the moves with this mixture - the more moves you fill, the faster the moles will leave your site.

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Prevention of the appearance of moles in the country

Effective folk methods of combating moles and preventing them include digging the area with a metal mesh. This work is laborious, but is one of the most humane and effective ways to get rid of animals. Bury a special metal mesh to a depth of 50 cm - it should protrude from the ground to a height of up to 30 cm.

Important! Moles will not be able to overcome the barrier, but worms will be easy, so there will be plenty of worms on the site, unlike large animals.

Instead of a galvanized steel mesh, you can use slate, a sheet of tin or roofing material folded in several layers for this purpose.

Important! The work ahead is not easy, but such high-quality preventive measures will prevent the transfer of animals to your territory.

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In the fight against moles in the country, use the most acceptable and safe methods and methods for yourself. Note that any of the above methods is not a 100% guarantee of getting rid of animals, so use an integrated approach. Better to prevent a problem than to solve it later.