Mole, wherever you look. This is the reality of most of our gardens, parks, meadows and limits. The tireless mole rake is here again in full force, and those who do not stand up to him can lose not only flowers, but also years of pipled trees.
The common mole is greatly idealized in our country thanks to a cute cartoon mole. But reality isn't that cute. Although this insect-eating mammal measures only about twelve centimeters, the traces of its pursuit of food are devastating. First of all, you need to make order in how it is with its pest. On the one hand, it is useful, because in the country pests feed, which would damage the roots. But when building its corridors, it can destroy the roots or separate them from nutrients. In this way, it can devastate the strawberry flower bed and destroy ornamental bushes. A separate chapter is the buried places where you can easily break through and sprain your ankle. For one animal in the garden it falls several tens of meters of corridors. They are divided into residential and those by which they pretend to be food.
First of all, you need to console your life. In the style of everything bad is good for something, it is good even a mole. He likes permeable and plump soil, so his appearance in your garden indicates that you have quality soil, the simplest advice is to dig up their moles and re-align the terrain and get a scare. The mole's almost blind, but his hearing's good. At one time, they were very popular home-made "windbreakers" from plastic bottles. But they don't work very well, because the mole will soon get used to the click. Another option is a battery scare, which emits a whistling sound and vibrations. Well, it may be working somewhere, but in our garden, it was all river just us. The sound couldn't stand it, so he left the house.
Baba's advice attracts mice
A peaceful solution is to use some of the women's advice. Maybe one of them will work on your mole. The first is to put in the moles lying down the curd, which they say the moles do not like, so they go on about the garden. A similar effect is attributed to the cut garlic cloves to release the essential oils. Another option is to put in the hallways nuts cooked in grated soap with deer. It is quite proven from the time of our grandmothers the use of sulpive wicks, rags impregnated with gasoline or naphthalene. It's easy to buy at an ordinary drugstore. Some gardeners, for their part, do not allow on the leaves of black bezu, which they say will exbart the mole. Just watch out. Do not take all preparations, traps or scarechoids into your hands, but put on gloves. In addition to having brilliant hearing, the mole also has a very good sense of smell and can safely recognize the human smell. In fact, it must be admitted that none of these recipes work 100% and, moreover, only in the short term. In addition, prepare for the fact that the abandoned corridors and burrows will not remain abandoned. They are very quickly settled by mice, who eat more in the garden than the mole dug up. Then the question is, what's worse. It has an unpleasant aroma for moles as well as Afrikaner, king yaroster, or cross-leaf rubber, which is good to rim the flowers.
Get it
Peaceful and proven method – Catch your mole requires a little time and quiet watching the garden. It's not as senseless as it looks, we've managed to catch a mole like this for two years in a row. The mole doesn't come out enough, but it does from time to time. You can also try to engrave it. It is quite slow and you can easily catch it in a bucket. Then all you have to do is take him a long way. A few meters is not enough, because the mole can orient itself according to the magnetic field and would quickly be back. Natural enemies are cats for a mole. If you don't have your own, lure the neighbors to your garden.
Traps, poisons, crossbows only for the sharp
Years of proven is to set a trap, of course, in gloves. In fact, they haven't changed in decades. They look like tubes that go into a exposed hallway. Some species also have a signal that you can tell if an animal has caught. Only for the sharp is a crossbow, i.e. an expansion liquidator. For example, the W2 will cost about a thousand. It's a trap with bullets and sensitive triggers. The animal is killed by high pressure of combustion gases that tear his lungs. In addition to the ethical level, one has to think that children or people who don't know it can take such a dangerous thing in their hands. It is better to try calcium carbide, which costs from seventy crowns.
What you definitely don't try
There are also a number of completely obscure or dangerous methods circulating among people. These include, for example, putting dog excrement, cut hair or cigarette starlings in the hallway. It is brutal to pour ammine water into several holes in the corridors and clog them. But if you have trees or s bushes nearby, you'll kill them, too. Similarly, it is dangerous to use lye, which pets can easily ask for. If you have a dog or cat, the use of poisonous lures and gels is also up for consideration.