How To Control Moles In Your Lawn

Moles present us with more mythologies and fear than Nuclear Winter. Everyone seems to have a “mole story” - the initial discovery, how they dealt with it and talk of return. I had a buddy who would wake up before the sun came up, grab a pitchfork and start stabbing the soil as the sun rose and he thought he could see the critter in action.

Nasty, really, when there is no real to make this molehill into a mountain. Basic pest control can work here - without hurting the little critters either.

Moles can be good or bad, actually. It’s generally when they begin disrupting the appearance of our lawns, by creating those avenues and mounds of dirt in wholesale fashion when we get most upset.

Are Moles All Bad?

Ironically, moles can actually aerate and make lawns better. They dine on the grubs and insect larvae which attach themselves to grass roots and are also banes of lawn lovers. The white grub, for example, is a well-known lawn-killer whose larvae eat grass roots at a disheartening rate. Well, white grubs are one of the most favored meals for moles.

One of the most abundant of small animals, the mole works the soil and subsoil. This tunneling and shifting of soil particles permits outstanding aeration of the soil and subsoil, carrying humus farther down and bringing subsoil nearer the surface where elements of plant food are made available. Current thinking - in favor of moles - is that because of these assets they provide, unless they are really disrupting a lawn’s overall look, one should mark them down as an actual asset.

Traditional Mole Control Methods

Given that we need a method of dealing with these critters because they are making a titanic mess in our yards, we have a very limited number of methods available, actually. Sure, the lore over how we control moles has abundant tales of guys sticking hoses and shooting either water or gas fumes from exhausts down into the holes where they travel. And many of these actually work at times. But extensive traveling throughout his system of trails and tunnels means the moles has little trouble relocating to weather the latest “storm” wrought by concerned ‘lawn-o-philes’.

Chemicals attempting to make their existence more miserable are also used. Diazanon, for example can often work to deter the mole, but Diazanon is not legal everywhere and we wonder about using chemicals around kids and pets anyway.

Fortunately, modern technology has the answer!

There is an array of Ultrasonic Repellers on the market, offering non-kill forms of pest control for various animals. Frequencies we humans can't hear can be very off-putting to small critters, and larger ones too. At last, being the ones with dull hearing in the animal kingdom is paying off!

You may be familiar with devices intended for indoors use against rodents and bugs, but there is actually an effective solution for Moles as well:

Simply activate and plant this small plastic shaft into your lawn and enjoy all around deterrence. In fact, there are other models available - all utilizing the same principle: a circle of ultrasonic sound vibrations which bother moles and make them avoid your lawn.

Finally, a humane, non-lethal and effective solution for mole control!