In article , Carl 1
Lucky Texan wrote:

wrote:
Yea I would name them
but if you want to get rid of them you have to get rid of what they eat

so try a grub remover

but really I would name them
you are lucky to have animals around

we have rabbits some people dont like them
but this is their home too so putting some wire around
the few plants they like to eat is not much trouble

when the benifit is I can look out in the yard and see a rabbit


Might as well start thinking of a name for your new invisible pet.




There are good reasons to treat for grubs, but a mole's diet is 70%
earthworms. So, a well maintained property will have plenty of those and
be very inviting to a mole. Try searching this newsgroup for mole info.
They are extremely difficult to remove/kill.

Carl

The common eastern mole eats a much, much higher percentage of grubs than
worms. The common western moles eat more worms than grubs. They all also
eat young slugs in spring & autumn.

Most moles want a VARIED diet and won't waste too much time tunneling
about in a lawn without a significant percentage of grubs. Unless they
have no choice for more varied feeding ground in unclaimed territories
(they're highly territorial & if they reach a certain density there'll be
a mole in just about every inhabitable location, unable to move to better
territory without getting beat up by another mole).

Moles can be very garden-friendly but I might have trouble tolerating a
Townsends, one mole can pile up twenty five or a hundred hills, it could
get really annoying. Smaller moles aren't quite that industrious. There's
usually only one at a time in any given area unless a female raising a
couple young.

Gophers are a whole nother show. They can like rabbits really eat up a
garden. But I'd be inclined to plant defensively & then give them feeding
stations away from anything sensitive, & enjoy watching them.

I've encouraged our squirrels for years so that by now they're very bold.
They're territorial too & usually there are only one or two in a given
area. But during the cold, cold, record cold winter there were five or six
visiting regularly, & they started digging bulbs. Annoying, but they'd
have to be a great deal more troublesome than that before I wouldn't like
them any more.

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