In article om, Myrl Jeffcoat wrote:
Well, I know we had this discussion awhile back, but I'm desperate.
Those pesky moles are back with a vengence. I know they are supposed
to be solitary critters, but I'm having a real hard time believing it.
My backyard looks like a terrorist training camp is being held just
below the surface!

So let's revisit this. . .I've tried putting chewing gum down the
holes. I've tried the gas sticks, which about killed me from the
fumes. I've poured Clorox down the holes and plugged 'em.

I've tried killing off their food source (the worms and the grubs).

Can you guys give me your latest best advice regarding these bane to
the garden?

I had the same "entertainment" with gophers that were coming up in my
backyard and making rather large potholes. I've taken out 5 of them
in the course of 1 year with a device called the "BlackHole" made by
Victor I believe (see http://www.victorpest.com/blackhole.htm) and it
has worked great.. I tried all other tricks including making a "juice"
that had urine in it (supposed to drive them away), but nothing else
worked.. I tried the smoke sticks which I found to have a very high
failure rate (like only 1 in the entire package worked -- the rest
were duds).. This trap has been the only thing that worked and
if you are able to gently excavate a fresh hole to regain access to
the tunnel system, you can dig out the hole a bit to give room for
the trap.. IF you do it right, you can fool the gopher/mole into
trying to bury the trap which is what gets them trapped.. Until this
last gopher I had, I had a 1-5 miss ratio which I think was excellent
overall..

For a better picture of what this device looks like, visit :

http://tinyurl.com/hdc5a