paghat wrote:
In article , "edja"
wrote:

Does anyone have any good experience with getting rid of moles? I
have tried a pesticide (mole tox) with little success. I have
looked on the web and seen several options: scissor traps, worm
type bait and eliminating grubs. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Ed

Check this out:
http://www.paghat.com/mole.html
The Victorian maxim that starts out the article, "The ground swells
greenest o'er the laboring moles," seems to have been forgotten by
envirophobic moderns, but it was once common gardener knowledge
that moles do not harm plants but do great good aerating soil &
controlling populations of grubs & beetle larvae that do harm
plants.

If per chance you really do have the rare & unusual mole who is a
serious problem (& they have enough individuality that one out of
every few thousand may find some method of being an actual rather
than assumed nuisance), no solution other than scissor traps are
likely to work in your behalf, & even scissor traps won't work if
you're not ultra-expert at placing them.

Once you've made the awful decision not to tolerate such wildlife,
your life thereafter as a mighty slayer of moles will be perpetual
frustration. Even if you have an occasional "success" in killing a
mole & can put your foot on its scissored corpse & raise your fist
to heaven singing a great song of victory against God's worthless
creation, another mole will move into the vacated underground
mole-runs the next day. You'll have to kill them serially for the
whole of your ambulatory life, then when you're dead, a wee
beady-eyed & pointy head will pop its head out of the sod over your
grave & blow raspberries at your tombstone.

-paghat the ratgirl

Well put Ratgirl.

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8b
Sunset Zone 5