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Some Important Facts To Know With Regards To Mole Trapping PA

By Sharon Olson


Moles are destructive animals which give home owners a lot of stress since they damage their lawns. Before you actually start this process of mole trapping PA you firstly need to understand some characteristics of these animals. These animals usually dig tunnels just below the turf while they are searching for grubs as worms which are their basic food.

These animals have a tubular shape of body which has a short velvety hair. They have ears and eyes which are almost invisible. The activities of these animals around your lawn depend on variety of factors. Season of year together with the availability of food usually determines when these kind of animals show up.

But these animals have a better part since they enhance the soil aeration while at the same time they control the larvae of Japanese beetle together with some other harmful bugs. Some of these animals do not consume flowers neither do they eat plants. If a homeowner can actually bear living with them then he needs to rest assured that these animals cannot cause any long term damage neither can they cause any serious damage in their yards.

Trap selection placement and selection is one of the most important factors to keenly put into consideration. Firstly an individual is supposed to find the most active tunnel since these animals use numerous tunnels which they use to run through. Therefore choosing the most active tunnel increases the chances of catching these animals.

Another common type of trap which is widely used is the scissor trap. These are the type of traps which are basically set over the surface of those tunnels which are active. They have scissor blades which are on the ground and on each side of the tunnel. When this type of animal crawls toward this trap, the trap is triggered and afterward these blades get snapped together which kills the mole instantly.

After you have successfully done this you then need to pack a lot of dirt just around the bucket edges and then cover the hole using either sod or even plywood. Now you can be checking this trap on daily basis to see if the animal has been caught.

In most cases this is not the most effective method but the one which is viewed as the most effective and tested method is by the use of either spring loaded trap or even utilizing the choker trap which is active once pushed by the mole. When using this spring trap you basically need to flatten the part of the tunnel which is slightly bigger than the trap base and then set you trap over it.

Whether you want to set the spring loaded trap or the live trap, firstly you need to know which of the tunnels are active. You need to actually step on those tunnels so that you can probably locate either one or more spots to collapse them, after which you need to actually check on those spots on the following day. If you find that the same tunnel has been dug once again then this would imply that the tunnel is an active one and now you can set your trap on such a tunnel.




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