Mole Control

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DR.KILL specialise in garden mole catching and undertake mole removal for domestic and commercial clients. Our fully trained and accredited pest control operatives supply a mole control and mole extermination service in the areas of Bromsgrove, Redditch and South Birmingham, with a guarantee of NO KILL NO BILL.

While moles pose no danger or problems for us, they can cause considerable damage to lawns and gardens with their unsightly molehills. Mole activity on farmland, sports/playing fields, golf courses, churchyards/cemetries, amenity land and equestrian establishments can have a range of more serious implications.

There needs to be a real case for the removal and control of moles. But if you think your mole problem does require a professional mole catcher service, then DR.KILL can help. We can supply you with a pest control technician to undertake an initial survey, before entering into the process of catching and removing moles from your premises.

Mole Identification

Moles have cylindrical bodies and their bodies range between 6 and 8 inches long and weighing between 3 and 6 ounces. Females are typically smaller than male moles.
Mole eyes are small and hidden behind fur, while the ears are just small ridges in the skin.
The fur of a mole is usually dark grey, but can range in color due to living mainly underground.
Moles have atrophied hind legs and powerful digging forelegs.
Even with a large mole infestation, a mole may never be visisble. Signs can be subtle, such as mounds of dirt that rise a few inches above the ground, lines of dirt or grass crisscrossing a lawn, patches of dead grass that follow a path or pattern, hollow or loose patches of lawn.

Mole Habitat & Breeding

Moles live in an underground tunnel system, used to hunt their prey. Under normal conditions the displaced earth is pushed to the surface, resulting in the characteristic molehills.
Moles feed mainly on earthworms, but also on insects, centipedes and even mice and shrews.
While moles are typically found in tunnel systems, it is not exclusively an underground dweller. Moles have been found to spend a lot of time at the sides of drainage lines and streams but do not inhabit flooded or dry soils.
Moles have only one short breeding season in the spring. Mating occurs over a few weeks in March and April, followed by a gestation period of 4–5 weeks. The litter size ranges from 2–7 and they leave the nest after around 4-5 weeks.

Mole Control

Majority of succesful mole control comes in the form of trapping, using various traps such as the barrel trap, scissor traps and talpex style traps.

Aluminium phosphides (gassing compounds) can be used in certain circumstances where trapping may be ineffective or inappropriate.

Use of aluminium phosphides shold only be undertaken by a qualified professional trained in the usage of gassing products.

Trapping moles is usually easiest during the spring and autumn. In the spring can also eliminate the pregnant females, reducing population.

Mole control can involve just a little encouragement to move elsewhere. Natural mole repellents being safer for the environment and the moles.

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