In reply to CWatters ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 28/9/07 14:41, in article ,
"Uncle Marvo" wrote:
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I don't approve of killing anything apart from mosquitos and
bluebottles (so I'm not a Buddhist) but moles are blind and have an
acute sense of hearing, it seems, so one of those mole-deterrent
ultrasonic things might be the ticket.

The downside is that you end up with a plague of bats colliding
with your windows all night.


That couldn't possibly be a downside here. ;-) We get plagues of
moles from time to time because we're surrounded by farm land. The
adjoining church yard gets masses, too. From time to time, we have
to trap them because as someone has said, it makes our lawn very
dangerous.

The ultrasonic devices do NOT work. DEFRA appear to agree... .

http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-cou...ole-review.pdf

It says....

"The available information suggests that these devices are not
effective.."

"There was no shift in the range used by the animals"

"The authors proposed that moles were not deterred because the
vibrations produced by the devices were rapidly attenuated when
passing through soil and could not therefore be detected beyond a few
centimeters away"

Don't buy anything until you have read this report.

Oh, that's all right then.

I believe every single thing that DEFRA ever says :-)

You will find if you look at history that just about everything DEFRA ever
says is to do with whether DEFRA can save some money/cover their backs, etc
etc.

DEFRA doesn't float my boat.