How do I control or eliminate moles in my yard without using poisons?

Answer 1

The moles are after grubs in your lawn, so get rid of the grubs and they will find another source for food. A product called BT (Bacillus Thuriengiensis) was available a while back, but I'm sure it has a different trade name now. It is milky spore disease in a bottle, basically: harmless to people and pets, but fatal to the grubs. That is the only organic method I can think of. Good lawn sanitation will keep it healthy, so give it a thorough raking in fall and spring, fertilize and dethatch and aerate when necessary. Chances are, you will get the occasional mole anyway, so just learn to live with it; as more and more natural habitat is destroyed by building, more animals are forced to go into populated areas for food, so the situation is only going to get worse. When I go down the street, it is like wild kingdom in the city: there are now rabbits, skunks, possums, and the list goes on. And this is not a neglected neighbourhood; it's just become a place for displaced wildlife. So we'll have to get used to seeing more animals as the wild areas disappear.

Answer 2

There is a trap called the blackhole that works well.
One other way, but it will take a while, is a natural way its
a (Bacillus called Milky spore) to kill the grubs moles love to feed on. But the grubs have to become infected by them to help spread it along with broad casting it also.
the faster it spreads the more grubs you have. Besides the Bacillus, I also like to use a granular product with Castor oil in it you can get it at Lowe's or Home depot. Apply it, water it into the soil, I reapplied about mid summer. I farm and have alot to mow I got tired of hitting the push ups of soil and choking on dust with the mower. I have a old stake type trap with tines on it they drive into the mole run the new ones don't seem to work as well the stakes seem to be too short and the spring will pull the trap up, I've done a little welding on the stakes to stop this.

Answer 3

The moles are after the grubs, worms, and insects that are in among the grass roots. Take measures to control the food supply and the moles have less incentive to stay there.

I have also heard that planting castor bean plants will drive the little buggers away, but I have never known anyone who tried it.

Answer 4

You must be in the US because we never use the term yard to descibe a garden, however, I often see in our local papers things you stick in the ground and they make a shrill sound which sends the little blighters to next door, must be available over the Pond.

Answer 5

Fertilizer.....keep chemicals to build up your lawn and its root system on the lawn. It makes the insects and worms the moles like to eat taste like crap, so they move onto a better area.

Answer 6

you have moles because you have an insect problem in your yard!
get rid of the insect infestation and the moles will go away!

Answer 7

moth balls in their holes seems to make them move . . . at least to the nieghbors yard that doesn't put moth balls in the mounds

Answer 8

You haven't watched the movie "Caddyshack," have you?