How Do You Kill A Lawn Mole?
Lawn moles do not just make your lawn look bad; they can also ruin your garden and attract bigger pests. Lawn mole removal strategies include poisoning them or flooding them out. However, poisoning can be dangerous to your household pets and children, and flooding mole tunnels is rarely effective and can ruin your property even further. Live traps are large and often disturb the tunnels so much that the moles stop using them. Scissor traps is by far the most effective way of killing lawn moles. Locate the main tunnels or runways that the lawn moles are using. These will be the straightest tunnels and will connect two or more other runways. Dig into the tunnel. Wearing protective gloves, use your digging tool to make a hole about the size of the trap. Leave an open tunnel on each side of the trap site. Use compacted dirt to make a small bump across the bottom of the lawn mole tunnel. Set the spring loaded mechanism. For most brands of traps, press the handles together and set the trip p