Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Reasons To Use A Mole Trap

By Rachael Gutierrez


Nowadays more and more people enjoy spending time taking care of their garden. Every serious gardener has encountered, though, the problems that moles cause in a garden. It might not look as a big deal, but if moles are not removed by using something like a mole trap, they can literally destroy the garden, and leave lots of holes in the ground behind them.

Moles are little furry mammals, that dig tunnels under the surface and use them to travel. Tunnels are connected to each other, and basically they provide the paths that a mole walks through underground. Moles are blind, so they are led by their other senses. Mostly, the thing that drives moles to a location is the air current that is caused by the openings to the surface that the tunnels have.

When it comes to gardens, moles become a serious danger. They destroy the garden by digging holes, and although they do not feed with your plants, they provoke their death. That is due to the fact that when the mole is searching for worms, its main food, it displaces the earth from the roots of your plants thus leaving your plants unable to feed. Therefore, moles are not a direct threat, but they cause serious trouble to your garden when they appear.

Before even thinking about getting rid of moles, one should take into consideration the other possibilities that could have occurred. Moles are not the only animals that can deteriorate your garden, therefore, you should think whether you have moles, voles, pocket gophers or ground squirrels in your garden. If moles are not your problem, then you should focus on other alternative of getting rid of your furry diggers, as each has its own ways of being captured and removed.

As soon as you are sure that moles are in your garden, you should start focusing on capturing and removing them from your property. For this purpose, traps are considered to be one of the most efficient existing methods of capturing moles. Using such a trap properly ensures that once the pray has been caught, it cannot escape.

The reason moles make tunnels below gardens is that they search for food. Earth worms are the food that moles prefer, and that is the reason they can be found ravaging gardens. One should not think that moles will just go away after a couple of days, as the only moment they leave a garden is when there is no more food left.

Thus, the best option that you have at your disposal are the traps. There are many brands, and each has its own instructions that once followed, the job is done in almost no time. Usually traps are placed by digging a dirt hill off and then positioned one by one in tunnels, one in each tunnel. That ensures that the mole has nowhere to go once it passes through that tunnel.

Using and placing a mole trap is really no big deal, and the results will definitely be satisfactory. As long as there are moles in your garden, you should keep trapping them. Only once the activity ended you can be sure that you won't have problems again.




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