Mole Control

Moles live solitary lives for most of the year. The exception is for Spring to early Summer when they mate. It is about this time of the year when mole activity may increase when two and later a few more young moles start digging tunnels in the area formerly occupied by one. Moles feed approximately every 4 hours and they will go out in a different direction on most occasions. When trapping, one needs to put out traps in every run which can be found to be effective. Our success rate is directly due to this fact, we put down many traps to ensure a fairly quick kill. Over the past month we have killed two moles within a yard or two of one another in six different places showing that the breading season is well underway. A mole may be caught by the use of one or two traps but it may take a long time and the traps need to be ‘ conditioned ‘ This means they must be left outside in all weathers for about a month and be made to opertate at the slightest touch or the mole will surely go around it and then be ever more difficult to catch by anyone. If you are contemplating trying to catch a mole, please think about this before doing so. If you do not do it properly, it will be more difficult and costly for whoever is called in to deal with it later. It is often more sensible to leave it to the professional from the start as many people have found.