Rid of a mole

[timquizpam]

I have a mole that loves my lawn. I have tried asonic device, some special bulbs.\The mole man puts gas in the ground that works for a while but the little pest returns. Any other ideas please?

[makemesmile]

someone told me to bury moth balls (same depth as mole tunnel) around the boundary of my lawn. apparantly moles don't like the smell. anyway, i'm not seen any mole hills for some months now, so hopefully they've worked. either that or it went of it's own accord. either way, getting a bloke in with traps was costing me �25 a time, and the moth balls cost �1.50 for a box - so it's work a try. someone else told me to do the same thing but use pickled onions. hopefully, one of these will work for you :)

[gastwo]

Several years ago we had a large (country) garden the same as IAP, and tried every method known to get rid of moles - jeyes fluid, mothballs, creosote, smoke bombs, traps, fireworks, propane, getting up at dawn and whacking them with a spade when they pop up...
In the end out of shear frustration my wife bent down to one of the tunnels and asked them very politely if they would go somewhere else. They did!... When all else fails...

[wolf63]

maybe it isn't the same mole every time.

[kwicky]

We had problems with moles a few years back. What we did was to place some glass wine bottles near to their holes. The sound of the wind vibrating in the bottle scared them off.

[OBonio]

This has reminded me of a Jasper Carrott sketch :

http://www.dtep.com/mole-in-the-hole.htm

:o)

[Thunderbird+]

That was a good sketch, I'd almost forgotten that one ;-)
Another method, if you dont want to blow their heads off, and I've tried this on a golf course and it did make them move on. You have to remember that their sharpest sence is their nose,with which they can sniff out worms that fall into the tunnels from a long way off, so what you do is carefully dig down into the hill/s to locate the tunnel, usually about 2"-4" then place a sprig of prickly gorse (furz) in the tunnel and back-fill it. They soon get fed up with being pricked on the nose!