White flag is raised, and time to get a mole trapper here. This is by far the worst mole season I've experienced. I win battles occasionally, but an underground war on four fronts is unwinnable.

We did the same this year. The trapper caught 4-5 good sized critters over the course of a couple weeks.

When I stop seeing feeding tunnels leading off my property, I know one or two have made a new home in my yard. Glad the trapper was able to get them off your land. Hope I have the same luck!

Our trapper set out about 15-20 underground traps, marked them with pink flags, and checked them every 3-4 days. So far we are pretty mole free. Our yard is surrounded by fields which have moles as well and now and again one will venture into the yard, one hill every now and then but nothing like we had before - it looked like a battle field. He left one trap in the ground, we may dig it out, and order some for ourselves. He said just a few moles can make a big impact.

Only two moles really did a number on my yard, last summer. I wouldn't care about mole holes in the yard if they didn't uproot my plants. Even worse, they will dig around the roots without disturbing the soil. The plant starts dying from lack of water, but the surface soil is moist. It's not until I step on the soil around the plant that I discover the problem, and the plant drops 4-5 inches lower in the ground.

Well, they trapped 4 moles, but it made zero difference. New moles moved in, and they are digging deep, so no mole hills to track them and impossible to trap. I just find plants dying in the heat because the moles are removing the soil around the roots. I give up

I'm sorry.

There also the possibility of gophers. I lift a plant and barely has any roots left. Worse yet a small plant will start wiggling like a huge wind has zeroed in on one plant. I find tunnel holes and use poison grain for gophers they like plants.And the traps don't work well for moles the cat gets them. Love my cat! I also have luck using the hose when there is a active spot and three or four holes close enough to watch the mole pop up and then snag it with the pitch fork. One year my lawn looked like a miniature golf course holes everywhere, like that movie Caddyshack! I don't plant much mole food , worms attracted to soft damp soil and gophers loved my dahlia tubers. Keep worms off of lawn I use Scott's lawn weed and feed moles hate that stuff. Also spray castor oil around the perimeter of flower beds works best in no rain days of summer and they stay out. I have tried trappers and they don't do well here. I have 5 acres and have to keep the clover out the gophers love it.

Thanks for the advice, bumplbea! I'm using Giant Destroyer smoke bombs (I don't think it kills them, but it smells up their tunnels for a long while), and Tomcat poison worms in their tunnels, with some success. Occasionally I can flush them out with the hose, and now that it's cooling off their are coming back to the surface. Haven't seen any evidence of gophers, but you never know for sure. The traps require too much finesse, and I haven't caught one this way.

I used traps in my younger days it's important to find a main tunnel the carefully dig in tunnel and set trap then place a rock over it or pot large enough to block the light. I tried those posion worms smoke bombs and even used hose connected to the tail pipe of the truck to pump carbon monoxide into the holes.its a vicious circle. They drive me crazy. I can't bend down anymore and so the hose issue is what helps in my lawns. In the garden I ignore most of them till the cat get one. It's usually just one mole or gopher they are so territorial.

Gopher mounds are shaped with soil mounds to one side with a large heap of soil. Moles mounds are conical shaped like a mtn and smaller mounds. Moles are after worms and gophers unfortunately are vegetarians. My cat gets both and leaves me souviners.

Watch Caddy Shack as an instructional video!

Exactly the scene around here! Ya gotta 🤭!

" I have to laugh, because I've outsmarted even myself. My enemy, my foe, is an animal. In order to conquer the animal, I have to learn to think like an animal. And, whenever possible, to look like one. I've gotta get inside this guy's pelt and crawl around for a few days. " -- Carl