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Background on the Varmit - The Garden Mole

There are at least 5 genera of Moles in the United States. The most common is the eastern or garden mole. This pesty mammal has a pointed snout, rudimentary eyes, soft velvety fur, broad feet and of course long powerful claws on it's front pair of legs. Moles are a pest around the home and garden because moles dig tunnels just below the surface of the ground - ruining your lawn and garden. Mole molestation must stop (parden the play on words)

Total Elimination of Moles - Victor Mole Traps

If you can stomach dead moles - these will do the job - perfectly - use them as follows.

1. To identify active mole tunnels, flatten out all tunnels. Wait 24 hours. Tunnels that resurface are most likely the active tunnels. Set traps in these locations.

2. Make a depression in the roof of the main tunnel by pressing down with your thumb.

3. Center the trap on the tunnel, with the trap pan directly over the depression you’ve made with your thumb.

4. Push trap down until spears have bottomed out.

5. Preset spear holes by plunging spears up and down until they travel easily to the bottom on their own.

6. Before setting the trap, make sure the firing latch is OUTSIDE the pan.

7. Holding the trap frame in place, rapidly pull upward on T handle until the firing latch snaps over the pan. Ease T handle down until latch catches.

8. Trap is set. If necessary, apply slight downward force to ensure pan is fitting IN the thumb depression and is contacting the roof of the tunnel.

9. Trap has fired. Remove dead mole.


This Victor® mole trap is equipped with a safety pin to eliminate false firings. Spring is the best time to trap moles because newly-made surface tunnels are easy to spot. However, moles can be trapped during any season except in very cold or dry weather

The Motomco Mole Killer (shaped like worms) is our favorite. Motomco MOLE KILLER is a breakthrough mole elimination product in the battle against moles. Developed and tested on live, captured moles, MOLE KIILER is the only mole bait scientifically proven to kill moles. It is EPA-approved for use by homeowners on lawns and gardens that are infested with moles.

MOLE KILLER works where grain bait mole killers, mole repellents and a myriad of mole elimination home remedies have failed. Shaped like an earthworm, the mole's natural food choice, MOLE KILLER so closely resembles the earthworm in size, shape and feel that a mole devours it the same way - grabbing the bait quickly with its large forepaws and ingesting it quickly.

Mole Molestation Elimination!

--- Mole begone

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