Attention, moles in the country! Part two: how to catch a mole on your own

Attention, moles in the country! Part two

Hello! In the first part, I told you, dear readers, how to deal with moles in garden plots, driving them out of there. In this article, I will tell you some secrets on how to catch a mole in the garden with your own efforts. After all, it is one thing to drive shaggy movers, and quite another to catch them and carry them far beyond the boundaries of their plot (for example, to a neighboring garden quarter) or kill them (but such methods are not for me). So let's go!

How to catch a mole in the country with a molehill

Pick a trap

Buy metal wire traps for moles at any hardware store. Remember, you need metal rings, not plastic ones! Otherwise, the mole will easily run away. Know that the quality of molehills is not the best, so first check the effectiveness of their operation. There is one simple truth: if an alien was once able to escape from its trap, then this experience will be remembered by him for life. Such a small animal will not allow a relapse, bypassing the mole catcher. Particularly intelligent animals are simply bombarded with earth.

So, you bought a mole catcher. Now you need to find out where to put it. To do this, go around the perimeter of the garden plot. When you find the main course, then take it. Wait. Moles on the site must come back to restore their working moves. If this did not happen, then the mole does not use this move, therefore, there is no sense in setting a trap here. Look for the next ground passage.

Set the mole trap

Did you find a working mole? Excellent! Now we move on to the most important thing: how to trap a mole. Traps are installed in pairs by the digger in pairs - on both sides of the same stroke, while the input wire rings are sent to both sides. The trap is covered with a board, slate and other auxiliary material from above. This is necessary so that the mole, which hates all sorts of drafts, does not restore the destroyed course. Everything, the trap is ready! When an alien gets caught - take it to the nearest forest.

Mole traps cons

Since moles move slowly along the upper earthen layer, they can notice the trap and go around it. In this case, use special traps that are placed at the intersection of moves.

There is one radical and brutal way to get rid of moles in garden plots. . If you are sure that you want to know him, then read my article on!

How to catch a mole with a garden hose

I warn you that, unlike all the previous humane methods of fighting moles, which I described in this and the previous article, this one is anti-human. Although I am not a supporter of animal cruelty, a similar method is very effective and reliable. Gardeners, who have already got the moles completely, it will be useful in the first place. So what is this method?

We take a garden hose, insert it into a fresh molehill and turn on the average pressure of water. We are just drowning a mole ... Use carbide as a “control shot”. It will turn out a kind of "gas chamber". Scatter some of this chemistry on molehills, and after that - drown moves. I want to inform you that by killing poor animals in this way, you make them suffer long and painfully ...

To summarize the subtotal

So, in this article we learned two ways of self-catching moles in a summer cottage. In the third and final part of my “mole” cycle, I will tell you, dear readers, about various means of repelling moles, among which the most effective is an electronic repeller. See you!