Mole Control - What Worked?
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2019
- The answer is Poison Moleworms! Strategically and repeatedly placed into the main mole tunnels and wherever new mole digging activity appears, poison worms did the trick for us!
After trying several “friendly” methods for chasing moles away from our yard (see my previous video “How to Chase Away Moles from Your Yard - What Doesn't Work!”), the only remaining option was to kill the buggers. The two lethal methods available at our local Co-op Farm and Garden store were the Victor Out O’ Sight Mole Trap, and the Victor Poison Mole Worms. Poison worms buried deep into mole tunnels seemed the safest method since our pet cat and dog roam our yard and gardens daily. Based on personal experience and many wasted hours spreading mole repellent and repairing mole damage, I highly recommend that you skip the non-lethal methods for mole control.
Great video. I appreciate that you showed the whole process and the final resolution. It wasn't quick, but it worked and seeing that will help me and others do it correctly. Your video is much more informative than many others on the same subject. Keep up the great work, (and include your nice dog and cat).
I feel your pain. I have moles and have been fighting them for two years. I finally bought some traps and put my first two out yesterday. No dead moles yet but I will not give up. I may try the poison worms too.
Excellent video! Thank you for all the detail of the hunt. This really helps me to keep at it.
Poison worms? Who knew, thanks for the tip. Another weapon in the eternal struggle between Man and Mole
Ive used the poison worms for years. For 20.00 for 10 worms in a box, 2.00 a worm. This seems to work best, vs traps.
Thanks for this video, I’m facing the same issue. Really appreciate the info
Gummy Worms didn't work, poison pellets didn't work, gum didn't work, drowning the tunnels didn't work, 2 types of traps didn't work, Irish spring didn't work......I hate these damn moles!
Blow them to hell with gas. Kidding
Thank you for a very informative video, enjoyed your beautiful garden too 🙏🏽
Thanks for visiting
Beautiful plantings!
The best video in youtube ever. Thanks gentleman!
thanks for the great video! We are struggling with similar problem of mole. Your video serves as tutorial!
Awesome video need to do more enjoyed it thoroughly. Poison worms sure hope I can buy them here in canada . Looks great your yard I mean . Thanx for posting 😊
Ha, I just purchased the same product today and this video popped up in my youtube suggestions. I sure hope the worm works in our situation. I've tried everything else. Thanks for the well-done video.
I hope so too! Thanks for watching and for your comment! BTW, was that you singing live in your video titled "Sassy Fitzpatrick - Night Fever (1990)?"
This is a great video!!! I'm entering my 2nd spring/summer of dealing with these jerks...going to adopt your strategy and pray!! :)
praying won't affect them.. try lethal measures. they're heathens
Thanks for the great info
I've had great success with the Wire Tech traps but some moles are in areas where it's not possible to set a trap. I think I'll try some worms. Thanks!
I usually use a bit of cardboard to cover the hole, then add dirt.
Thanks for this, Randall!
Can you make another video on how you grew those INCREDIBLE SUCCULENTS?
Yes!! I was thinking the same thing! 🔥
I recently used the worms but still had some activity so i purchased a mole smoke bomb, placed it in the tunnel and with a leaf blower aimed it down toward the tunnel and you wont believe how far the smoke traveled revealing a lot of their tunnels systems. Now i just need to monitor for activity , hope it worked .
Congratulations on your success. You have beautiful landscaping...such a shame these creatures did such damage. I have to say you have shown tremendous patience and perseverance through it all.
The moles are back! This mole control method lasted exactly two years. I am again dropping 1/2 a poison worm into the mole's tunnels that run along the brick edging between lawn and garden where the worms like to hang out. Thank you for your comment and compliment!
@@randallwingett That’s too bad. I have them too. I am trying the so called peanuts. I’m guessing they won’t work, but they didn’t cost much. After that, I’m using your method...worms. Good luck to you.
@@randallwingett Twenty one bucks for ten worms, so whose is winning? I put over 100.00 worth of Tulip bulbs and someone rang the dinner bell. This is the third year in a row moles are winning not to mention tripping over the mounds walking across the yard. Tulip bulbs are eight inches in the ground and again they've disappeared.
The pro's only use traps. This advice has never changed. It is always one mole doing all the damage.
Thanks for your comment! Do you have experience with removing moles?
I don’t like using poison, especially with pets freely roaming our yard, but the lethal worms work great for us! No moles for over a year!
Beautiful succulents
I’m gonna have to try those. I feel like they are just playing with me now. They keep popping up everywhere but where I set the traps.
Good job 👍
This works EVERY time!! Watch the tunnels, stamp them down, find a new one the next day, garden hose, drown em out, with a glove on, throw em in a bucket with 6 inches of water, go shopping come back and rid the body. Always remember, if you have one, the sister is still out there and repeat steps 1-6. Reseed!
Good job❣️
They should pay you a commission. Sold me.
great for you. I've put out numerous poison worms in multiple runs and STILL have new activity. argh.
Thanks for this! I’ll try this if what I’m going to try today doesn’t work. They started on my lawn, squirted peppermint in their holes and they went up one level (I have 5 levels to my yard) then did the same there and they lee going up and ruined my new lavender level! Spraying the heck out of the ground with a peppermint, cinnamon, rosemary mix
Travis Smith same I just bought poison bait and after a while it really slowed down
Cinch traps work good for me. I use on pocket gophers and moles..
I've used the Tomcat poison worms and they work great. You don't need to dig down to their tunnel, just use a dowel to find their tunnels (following the manufacturer's instructions on finding active/main runways), and drop it in that way. Much easier! Your kitty has such cute crazy eyes!
When do moles start working in the yard? Night???
Can you link the product you used?
They got a whole roadmap under your yard
I started using Juicy Fruit gum a week ago. Need to wait a few weeks but it looks like it's working. Moles love it but can't digest it. Just be sure to wear gloves so you don't leave your scent on it.
I use "Juicy Fruit Gum" to kill the moles in my yard. It works just as well as the poison worms and is a lot cheaper. I have read that the mole can't digest the gum and it plugs them up. I don't know, but it kills them. I'm on the third year- just remember that probably more than 1 mole is using that run.
Yesterday my vet told me to use Juicy Fruit Gum, never heard of doing this... Bought a couple packs today and am heading outside to give it a try..
Fingers crossed!!!
Do you chew it up and put it in the tunnel? Do you take the stick out and just put it in the tunnel?
@@MCarmer21 I took the whole unchewed stick out of the foil and placed it right in the hole...
I used tongs to handle the gum so my scent wouldn't be on the stick of gum..
Unfortunately this didn't get rid of my voles...
Later this week, I'm going to spray caster oil on my lawn ....
I need to double check but I think it's 6oz caster oil, 2 gallons water and 2 table spoons dish soap... Mix in sprayer attatched to hose and spray on lawn...
Fingers crossed... Ugh
@@rhondabenedict5284 id love to know if this works, and where you found the recipe. I just got signs of moles showing up today in my back yard and definitely don't want to spend a ton of money on getting rid of them. Thanks for the info.
Tried this, been two weeks and the mole(s) still making new molehills daily. What is your dose?
I'm surprised that the Elkhound didn't dig them up and eat them. Mine love to catch moles.
In the last shots with the dead moles - were they from the poisoned worms, and if so, how did you locate the bodies for removal?
The bodies are good fertilizer.
@@randallwingett That's what I was hoping. I don't mind handling bodies, I'd much rather do it when they are fresh - not a fan of having to disinter decomposing bodies.
I haven't decided wx I have moles or voles, but I've got to handle them soon.
I appreciate your videos.
My whole front yard is infestation with moles. All in a week. I feel like on walking on sponges.
3 years later…. Are they back?
Is it the poison or is it the plastic worm that kills the mole...I,m going to try plastic fishing worms to stop up their gut...
I got 2 beagles that must hate that sound the moles make cause they get nuts and go right to them dig them up and eat them. My great dane caught one but rolled all over it and stunk so bad.
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I have tried this myself and they do work great! I usé traps first but the poison grubs works better
What brand of poison grubs
JTO o Victor brand
These worms are not cheap. I have about a half acre yard and new molehills every day.
@@ModMINI the easiest way to catch them is by spying on them, mole’s have a great sense of smell and even the slightest strange smell will keep them away from the traps
A support group for ummm...The Mole People...?? Ok, I will name it that😁 Mercy!! So...it's nice to know that so many others try to repell vs the other 😭. I can't bring myself to premeditate that action! I'm going on 2 yrs now. I've tried almost everything known to repell! For crying out loud, I even had a pool constructed! Prior to that...a tree had to be removed. Medium size. I even felt bad about that! But my goal in theory was...to cause extreme acute environmental stress and they move to greener pastures. The noise was immense, traumatized one of my dogs. The pool was immense too, and 6 weeks vs 1 day with tree removal. After completion, and noise calmed...the moles seemed to come back with a vengeance, and...in the exact same spot i had originally noticed their first tunnel. Something about that area...? Idk but there is barely any grass in that spot after pool finished and it's mainly shells above tunnel. Every day I pluck more grass out in hopes they want food elsewhere. I still have those loud solar sticks too. I've tried immense grudge mowing 🤬 to the bald look. These critters are unstoppable! Of course that spot is not the only one. They are everywhere! That feeling when ur foot steps on soft...🤮!
I'm going to keep trying repellents. I planted a bird of paradise tree in backyard bout month ago, and by the next day...it was surrounded with tunnels galore! I'm about to use molemax granular, kinda like what he says don't use...but I've had this bag for a year unopened, so wtheck. I'm going to give it a shot. Between them and the snakes...and rabbits who startle but are cute...I feel like Dr Doolittle but watching vids like this, it makes me feel...not so alone! 😁 The grub pic, long story short...pure happenstance when I did an acc edit for the first time but seems appropriate for videos like this but it's probably the grubs, that make yard so desirable. I havnt seen any lately and they probably coming out soon. They are the strangest looking something or other! 🤮x2!
The basic instinct to survive is...epic! They are important to our ecosystem and I just can't bring myself to the solution that would probably work. Sigh 😕...
Hilarious!!! Your writing is like our good friend Gerry. But get real. Moles vs humans?
I've had good results using a sledge hammer and traps that kill. I bought them on-line. They are pushed by foot into the ground and have pinchers on both sides that kill the mole. Don't buy cheep kill traps made of plastic, these are made of high-quality metal and cost about 15$ a piece, they are sold as a pair (2). A sledge hammer works great but you have to see them moving and sneak-up quietly on them, the concussion kills them, you do not have to hit them directly. Peace to all.
❤ the dog & the cat ❤
How did you find them after they died?
It’s near impossible to find their bodies. The moles decompose and become fertilizer. No odor whatsoever. “Moles can dig through loosened soil extremely quickly, clearing as much as 18 feet in an hour and adding up to 150 feet of new tunnels under your lawn each and every day.” www.tomcatbrand.com/en-us/library/identifying-moles-gophers/learn-about-moles
Did you dig up the dead moles or they just appear dead on your yard?
In time, the dead moles become organic fertilizer. And there was no smell. Thank you for watching my video!
I dug my hole up and noticed worm was gone and another hole half worm gone
Where to buy the Poison worms?
Amazon
Holy moly
I get 10 new mounds on my large semi finished lawn a day which is probably a total of 1 arce. I've used box's of worms, 8+ full round containers of mole bait, I have 6 traps out, flooded the crap out of them and even dropped full bait bricks in holes... I have no proof that they have done anything to kill the moles, they just keep going.
Its not they its one mole, they are territorial and protect their turf, one mole will dominate an entire acre!
Same here. I've tried all the above, juicy fruit gum (heard they can't poop it out), and pumping propane underground (without lighting it). Nothing works. Nothing.
Moral of story. Moles hate red flags? Jk hahaha
I believe you need to careful to not cover the “worms” with dirt. They must lay undisturbed.
do you still have Moles?
This method of mole control continues to work well for me, unlike nearby properties that are riddled with mole mounds. But on the rare ocassion that I see a fresh pile of dirt near the border of our property, I poke around the mound to locate the hole, drop in half a poison worm, cover it back up with dirt, then drop a couple more half worms in the run several feet apart. This stops any further mole activity.
Thank you for your question and for watching my video!
I caught three moles in 5 days with the traps i use trapline mole traps
I work pest control and have used at least 6 different kinds of traps. Trapline are my favourite
Where can you buy Trapline traps?
@@petedeffner7002 eBay is the only place i can find them a guy makes them and sell them sir
And then what? What do you do with live moles? Mole sanctuary?
@@charreed8727 it snaps their neck they don't live
moles are great for the soil aeration ...bad for aesthetics
These work great but are slow and cruel. I just had to beat a mole in the head that was in my driveway twitching around that was obviously poisoned. Not what you want to do first thing in the morning
But at least you started your morning on thr right note knowing the mole was gone
damn what's wrong with your cats eyes? 🤣
Use a long screwdriver to find the tunnel then wallow it around to enlarge the hole. Slide a half worn down the hole then close by pinching dirt with your hands. Use traps in their runs and you know what when it works plus much less expensive.
The solar ones are hilarious. My neighbor has them up and like 5 mounds will be all around it 😂😂😂. You have to trap. Period. That’s the only tried true method. Poisoning them will harm your dogs. Many dogs will dig them up. Coming from someone that works for the department of ag / many golf courses trapping for over 24 years.
Gopher hawk is amazing for both moles and gophers. The DK1 death clutch is amazing. And the original victor out of sight traps are great, the ones before like 2021 with the stronger spring.
And how do dogs, and cats do with the traps in your years of experience? Our Elkhound, Skye has caught several moles, but she doesn’t kill them. Why? Are they poisonous?
Maybe it depends on the particular environment. The poison worms still control our moles. The spring traps are very dangerous.
That seems like a lot of work.
You sound like a nice guy Randall so I'll let you know my secret. If you find mole activity in your yard, take a little vinegar and pour it into their tunnel. Moles are blind and rely on their nose to find food. If they can't hunt they will move to another area. You don't need to kill them, just show them the way out of your yard.
Driving your moles into your neighbors' yards doesn't seem like a very nice move (NIMBY for moles). Help your neighbors out by not driving your pests into their yards.
This was the first method we tried and "our" mole just laughed and dug more mounds...
@@chrisogilvie6353 So then you think it's better to kill them?
@@Mascotal I would say yes, or use a humane trap if that's important to you. I have a large yard, so if something bothers them where they're at they just move 10 feet to a new area, plus if they reproduce their babies will find new territory in your yard, after their parents are in your neighbors.
Sorry as for me, moles have to go either way kill or spray something to drive them out. There are PLENTY OF MOLES in the world. Perhaps our worms is the next problem driving the moles into this beautiful(was) place. We have lots of organic earth worms. Hmmm
here's a fool proof method that's guarenteed! use a road flare. just light it and bury in the hole, magic!
Worm baits worked
Why not treat for the grubs they are eating? There are pet friendly options and once you get rid of the grubs the moles will disappear.
They don't eat just grubs. They eat every kind of insect. You can kill most insects with lawn pesticides with the exception of earthworms because they are often too deep to be affected. As long as the earthworms are there, the moles will be too.
🚫☠️ 🪱💭 I'm not falling for that again!
Best part about moles? When you poison them they bury themselves
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Did not work….. used 20 poison worms ‼️ 9-6-2021
Going to try carbon monoxide from my lawnmower exhaust…..
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The poisoned worms are the only thing that worked for me. The traps are all garbage.
Use juicy fruit to kill them
Absolute rubbish !, that advice
Where can I find these worms in Ontario Canada?
I have a very smart mole / gophers don’t know but he destroyed third time my entire yard and flower bed
Walmart but you have to order on line
@@earth-thrower7366 can you word that to where it makes even the slightest bit of sense?
@@earth-thrower7366 lol, says the guy who can't structure a sentence and inserts unnecessary commas to the point your comment is unreadable. And remains so after your edit.