Pest Controlers Please Help Me
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Pest Controlers Please Help Me
Don't kill our entertainment !! I didn't want to ruin your confidence for victory when you refereed to the aggressor as singular, but one mole in a bug infested nice green lawn ??? Ain't gonna happen ... I used the "marking the territory" theory on coyotes and it seemed to help... You must be willing to drink more beer to manufacture the deterrent, but according to your comments, that shouldn't be a problem ...I suggest you tap a keg and invite all your buddies over... Make them put their hands in a bucket of cold water every half hour and aim them to the yard...You may need all the help you can get...
Seriously, the way to get rid of them is to spray the lawn for the nematodes and other bugs that are under the sod of the grass.... No more food, the moles will move out...I think you can get a treatment that won't harm warm blooded critters including pets....So, if you want to go ahead and ruin our fun, then that will be up to you ... :~(
Seriously, the way to get rid of them is to spray the lawn for the nematodes and other bugs that are under the sod of the grass.... No more food, the moles will move out...I think you can get a treatment that won't harm warm blooded critters including pets....So, if you want to go ahead and ruin our fun, then that will be up to you ... :~(
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When I was trying to "catch" my moles with the water hose trick, I wound up getting 2 in back to back days. The key is patience and correctly monitoring the "fresh" tunnels. That way when you put the hose in the ground, you're pretty certain the general area they are in. Since they are pretty slow when above ground, they are easy to scoop up in the bucket. I have a large flood zone behind the house so I walked them WAY back and released them unharmed. Just like your situation, I have lots of area I don't care about, but they had to be in the little patch up front were everybody sees my lawn! Good Luck.
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Originally posted by haroutd
Congrats on your victory Nutter! I was wondering how things were progressing there... glad to hear it turned in your favor. I will laugh, though, if he decides to come back.
Congrats on your victory Nutter! I was wondering how things were progressing there... glad to hear it turned in your favor. I will laugh, though, if he decides to come back.
Next time, stick with the shotgun. If you're the sentimental type, bury him in one of his own deep holes.
Now your turn to get a laugh at me. After hearing about the male dominant urine idea, I decided to try it out. Been getting a lot of deer eating our roses here, so I started marking the territory. 1 in the morning so no neighbors can see, me sneaking outside in my boxers (bed attire), spreading my mark near all the rose bushes. Kept checking over my shoulder to make sure no cops were nearby... would have been a tough story to sell! Can you imagine being lit by a spot in mid-stream and hearing, Put "it" down and your hands up!
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We had moles back home and what they are primarily after are grubs... That is the underground stage of the "June bug", a hard backed brown beetle about the size of a fat pinto bean...When we had a large hatch of the beetles in the Summer, I knew my lawn was going to get dug up the next Spring ...Our lawn was just wild grasses that I mowed, nothing fancy, so I would let nature take it's course... When the beetles hatched, the moles were gone...
Haroutd.......Success at selling your story to the cops or not, you're going to be the topic of conversation back at their barracks and the start of gossip in your neighborhood......I hope your shorts are the kind with the big red hearts on ... :~)
Haroutd.......Success at selling your story to the cops or not, you're going to be the topic of conversation back at their barracks and the start of gossip in your neighborhood......I hope your shorts are the kind with the big red hearts on ... :~)
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Haroutd......
"Can you imagine being lit by a spot in mid-stream and hearing, Put "it" down and your hands up!"
Your feet would deffinately be warm ..
"Can you imagine being lit by a spot in mid-stream and hearing, Put "it" down and your hands up!"
Your feet would deffinately be warm ..
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I had scratch the hose thing for tonight the weather kicked up real good and it's ranning like mad here. Maybe the urine thing will work.
I think I brought this on myself and took his home away from him. If you look in my gallery in the first pic you'll see a big old Norway maple behind the truck. About a week before the mole showed up we cleaned all the under brush out from under it. He started to show up about 10 to 15 feet away from it. There had to be mad amounts of food (bugs) for him under that tree.
I just put the front spots on, there's 4 mounds out there now!
I think I brought this on myself and took his home away from him. If you look in my gallery in the first pic you'll see a big old Norway maple behind the truck. About a week before the mole showed up we cleaned all the under brush out from under it. He started to show up about 10 to 15 feet away from it. There had to be mad amounts of food (bugs) for him under that tree.
I just put the front spots on, there's 4 mounds out there now!
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2 days and no sign of any mounds or trails anywhere on the lawn
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Hasn't worked as well for me. 3 times so far I peed near the roses. My little brother even got a kick out of marking the territory. But the deer were back again this morning. Gotta' love how mom can't stand that they're eating her roses, but has to wake up the whole house and say "The deer are right outside the door! There's 4 of them this time! Wake up and look -- they're so beautiful!" I had to remind her that these beautiful animals probably just finished eating the last 3 leaves her rose bush near the mailbox had left.
How come when I go hunting they can smell the coffee on my breath from 500 yards, but when I'm pissing near my roses they don't even care? What I wouldn't give for a silencer...
PS -- Glad to hear you got the best of him! You gonna' keep peeing out there for another day or two, just to stay on the safe side?
How come when I go hunting they can smell the coffee on my breath from 500 yards, but when I'm pissing near my roses they don't even care? What I wouldn't give for a silencer...
PS -- Glad to hear you got the best of him! You gonna' keep peeing out there for another day or two, just to stay on the safe side?
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You might try some antifreeze down the holes. They drink the antifreeze and that kills 'em. Of course, with the amount of water you've been putting down there, I doubt he wants to drink anything!
Ever consider the possibility of multiple moles?
Ever consider the possibility of multiple moles?
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A friend of my dad's took his lawnmower, connected a tube of the exaust, ran it in the hole and packed some dirt around it. Fired up the mower and let it sit for a while...gassed em. no poison, no garden hoses nada.
Worked for him
Worked for him
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