Mole Control Strategies for West Bloomfield Yards

Moles can wreak havoc on your beautiful West Bloomfield lawn, creating unsightly tunnels and disturbing your carefully maintained landscape. Fortunately, there are several effective methods to control and eliminate these underground invaders.

Understanding Mole Behavior

Moles are primarily attracted to yards with abundant food sources like earthworms, grubs and other subterranean soil dwellers. They thrive in soft, damp soil and can quickly transform a pristine lawn into a network of tunnels and mounds which results in long trails of brown grass or dirt mounds in your lawn.

 Effective Mole Control Techniques

1. Mole Baiting

It’s not possible, or even desirable, to try to eliminate the mole’s food supply. However, introducing mole bait in the form of the mole’s most common food staple, the earthworm, has proven to be an effective means to control the mole population on a property. Specialized mole baits mimic the form, smell and texture of an earthworm and have been proven to be accepted by moles.

2. Mole Trapping

Trapping has a long history of being an effective means to control moles in West Bloomfield lawns. There are multiple types of mole traps on the market. The only downside to trapping moles is properly setting the traps and checking them every day. If they are not set correctly moles will simply tunnel around the traps. Moles can also trigger the trap without being caught in it – so it does need to be checked daily.

3. Natural Repellent Methods

Several natural approaches such as castor oil-based repellents, planting marigolds around the perimeter of a yard or installing ultrasonic devices are on the market to deter moles from tunnelling in a lawn. However, none of these have been proven to consistently be effective at keeping moles out of a lawn.

4. Chewing Gum

Probably not a year goes by when someone happily tells me that they got rid of moles by putting Juicy Fruit bubble gum in the moles’ tunnel. I don’t doubt the mole left the property, but it wasn’t because of the Juicy Fruit bubble gum. The mole moved on for some other reason or was killed by a predator. It has been proven that moles do not eat gum.

5. Mole Control Pellets

These are not going to work for the same reason that gum will not work. Moles are not going to eat some random poison pellet that they find in their tunnel. They are insectivores and are primarily looking for earthworms, but will also eat any grubs, beetles or centipedes that they find as they are patrolling their tunnels.

Professional Assistance for Mole Control

Moles have a high metabolism and are constantly on the move. They eat their body weight in food every day. If their tunnel system is not productive, they make new tunnels or move on to a different property. They might show up on your property any time of the year. They do not hibernate, so they are even active under a snow-covered lawn.

If you need help getting rid of moles in your West Bloomfield lawn call Owen Tree & Lawn Care today at 800-724-6680. We have had great success with our season long mole baiting program.