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[cbelt3]

Find the holes . Get a "gopher gone" gas bomb. Fill in all the holes you can find and toss the flare gizmo into the last hole, then cover it up. Gasses them, and they are already buried.

[flareslow]

rgG wrote:
I have moles. Any ideas how to get rid of them?

Kill the beetle grubs in your lawn that they are feeding on. I don't know the correct pesticide off hand, but someone here may know.

Mike

[OWC Jamie]

You'll need something a tad more powerful than a .22 unless you want to shoot it a half dozen or more
times - even up close in a havahart trap

You used to be able to aim car exhaust down their burrow but your exhaust is now too clean.

The smoke bombs might work and you might iust annoy them and burn yourself.


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if you have moles you might starve them away by poisoning your lawn and landscape enough
or using a stab them trap, I have one that never stabbed anything
but you have to be sure you have moles and not voles. Moles leave mounds of dirt in the lawn and landscaping
voles eat roots and bark so your plants and trees are dying.

I had troubles with voles destroying certain hostas last year, but the neighbor's cat seems to have gotten quite adept at catching them and bringing them home so I'm unmulching some places making them easier to find rather than poisoning them.

[DavidS]

[Buzz]

billb wrote:
You'll need something a tad more powerful than a .22 unless you want to shoot it a half dozen or more times - even up close in a havahart trap

You used to be able to aim car exhaust down their burrow but your exhaust is now too clean.

The smoke bombs might work and you might just annoy them and burn yourself.

You just have to be accurate enough to hit 'em in the head w/ every shot if you use a decent pellet gun... and once you're a good enough shot, you can probably even get by w/ a .177 cal. pellet gun as long as it's got some oomph. If you're not a really good shot, then as noted, other options are probably a better choice.
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[Speedy]

And leave your spiders alone. They are there helping keep your flys, etc. in check.

Exhaust is not too clean to kill. All that CO2 will do them in.

[max]

Go green.
Get a rat snake....

[Ombligo]

The car exhaust will work to a degree. I have used it as a humane put down of small animals - for that I just made a exhaust balloon of an old garbage bag and drop the creature in it, data within 5 seconds. The issue for your situation is the tunnels are very extensive and getting all the air pockets would be hard. Most likely at least one tunnel runs outside.

If it is an extensive population, as much as I hate to say it, poison is the best bet. You could try gas or traps first, but most likely it will be poison at the end.

[OWC Jamie]

Buzz wrote:
[quote=billb]
You'll need something a tad more powerful than a .22 unless you want to shoot it a half dozen or more times - even up close in a havahart trap

You used to be able to aim car exhaust down their burrow but your exhaust is now too clean.

The smoke bombs might work and you might just annoy them and burn yourself.

You just have to be accurate enough to hit 'em in the head w/ every shot if you use a decent pellet gun... and once you're a good enough shot, you can probably even get by w/ a .177 cal. pellet gun as long as it's got some oomph. If you're not a really good shot, then as noted, other options are probably a better choice.
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How can you be "inaccurate" with the end of the barrel 4 inches away trapped in a havahart trap ?
6 shots straight to the head and it was still grunting: pissed-off.

[richorlin]

Forrest wrote:
I bet a dog would do a fine job chasing away those ground hogs.

Then you have to find something to chase away the dog...