The PIGG Pin

You might be staring out into your yard thinking, Man, I have a thousand moles running around tearing up my pretty lawn and garden. That is a fine thought, but totally untrue. Typically, there are 1-2 moles per one acre of land. Can you believe that 2 little creatures can do so much damage? 1 mole can tunnel about 800 feet per day. So let’s talk about how to get rid of them…

There are many wives tales that your grandfather will tell you on how to kill moles. Most of them are probably true. I have a lady that works with me that swears the Juicy Fruit technique really does work. Juicy Fruit gum is sweet to taste and the moles like the taste. When they eat it, they cannot digest it and henceforth, die.

You must find an active tunnel in order for most of these remedies to work. How to find an active tunnel…step down on all the tunnels you can find, and which ever ones are repaired (pushed up) within 24 hours, are active tunnels.

Here is a list of options for mole removal…

• Juicy Fruit Gum. Insert sticks of the gum in several different tunnels
• Castor Oil. Spray over the yard, and spray in the tunnels. The oil makes them uncomfortable and they leave.
• Hot Pepper. Makes the skin itch and they leave
• Smoke Bombs. Can be bought at a hardware store and the smoke kills the mole if it reaches them.
• Flooding. Fill all the tunnels with water and wait for the moles to pop up, and do with them what you please.
• Live Trap. Gently dig a hole in the middle of an active tunnel, disturbing the least amount of soil possible, and bury and bucket for them to fall into. Dispose of as you please.
• Spring loaded trap. A metal trap that is placed over the active tunnel. When the mole trips the sensor, the spear comes down on the moles back.
• Vibrators. A battery powered spike that sends shock waves through the ground to scare them away.
• Kitty Litter. Put this in the tunnels and holes and let it harden up to block entry.
• Moletox. A chemical that is inserted in the tunnel for them to eat and die
• Mole Repellent. A granular chemical to spread over the yard to repel the animals away.
• Grub Killers. A granular chemical spread over the lawn to kill grubs, (which moles like to eat). Not always effective because moles eat earthworms and other little creatures.
• WeKillMoles.com. If you live in Tennessee, you can hire WeKillMoles.com for a guaranteed kill. They inject 98% oxygen and 2% propane throughout the tunnels and light it. It instantly kills all underground animals and collapses the tunnels to prevent rehabitation from neighboring moles.