How and what to poison the moles

The summer season is a time of hard work for gardeners and gardeners: preparing the soil, planting seedlings, planting vegetables and caring for shrubs and fruit trees. In the "battle" for the harvest, many troubles are able to deliver moles - underground inhabitantswho, in search of food, dig high-rise galleries and their paths, gnawing the roots of useful plants on their way. Often the only way pest control is a poison for moles, which will help reduce their numbers on the site and save garden crops from death.

The benefits and harm of moles

Some scientists believe that deep transitions and burrows of moles improve the air permeability of the soil and benefit the soil. However, moving under the ground through dug out canals, these animals contribute to the death of garden plants and even trees due to spoilage of roots. When in the middle of the beds with already planted vegetables, many molehills appear, the owners become desperate because of their ruined labor and future harvest.

If none humane ways of scaring or protection from underground pests are not able to help, many people think about how to destroy or poison these animals, reducing their number in the garden or dacha.

Fighting moles

Over the past 10 years, experienced gardeners have come up with many ways and funds control of underground pests that can be divided into 3 groups:

• scaring away moles with the help of plants, traps, homemade devices and ultrasound scarers;
• chemicals that can destroy the animals with the help of poison;
• folk methods with which you can catch or poison pests.

Shop Poisons vs. Earthmovers

In household stores or on the market, there are several types of mole diseases that have different efficiencies and effects on pests.

Such rodenticidal agents on sale are of several types:

• poison baits that lay near the holes: braces, pellets, granules;
• concentrated liquids used to prepare the poison as an additive to the base of grains or other products;
• means that emit poison gas.

Toxic chemicals from moles

Most Popular Mole Poisons:

• ARGUS Garden (Argus Garden, Russia) - rodenticide poison in the form of granules, weight 50 g. Helps to get rid of moles with the help of the toxic substance bromadiolone, from which the animals start choking, which causes their death. Pellets should be laid out by 15-20 g in the form of baits from 2 sides near the mole exit. Price 50 rubles.
• ARGUS-gel - specially created for the destruction of moles, rats and mice, the tube contains 30 g of gel. Consumption rate: apply 5-10 g portions of the gel in each hole.The active ingredient brodifacoum affects the respiratory system of the animal, causing paralysis. Price 100 rubles.
• Concentrated gel Green house (Rosagroservice) - a special liquid for the preparation of poison against rats, moles and mice, the volume of 1 liter. Contains bromadiolone, which causes choking in animals after eating a poisoned bait, which is made at the rate of 50 g of poison per 1 kg of edible base. The fluid flow rate is 15-20 g for each mole. Price 700 rub.
• Anti-Mole - rodenticidal granules (50 or 100 g) with the content of a poisonous substance, are put in the amount of 15-20 g in each underground passage of moles and mole rats. Price 50-100 rubles.
• Russian trap - special paraffin briquettes for the destruction of moles and rodents. In the package 1 kg of blocks are allowed for use in residential premises, cellars and garden plots. The active ingredient brodifacoum, which causes paralysis of the respiratory organs of animals. Price 600 rub.
• Anti-Mole Modifi - poison in the form of pellets to fight against moles and mole rats in a package of 120 g. Main components: garlic, bromadonalon, bitrex, kerosene, grain basis, etc. The pellets are laid at 10-20 g near both ends of holes. Price 100 rubles.

Important!

Before buying any poison you should definitely read the enclosed instructions, since many toxic substances have a negative effect not only on animals, but also on the surrounding plants and even affect the soil. Therefore, their use in a vegetable garden or garden can adversely affect future crops.

Mole gas poisoning

Mole gas poisoning

One of the modern means disposal of underground pests - the use of poison from moles in the country in the form of poisoning them with gas, which is released during the fumigation of underground passages with an insecticide.

Dakfosal Antikrot - a poisoning agent against moles and insects, is sold in a tube with tablets of 3 pcs. It contains aluminum phosphide, which in the process of fumigation or fumigation releases a toxic gas that penetrates into the holes of underground pests and destroys them. It is applied at air temperature not lower than + 10ºС.

The active substance formed during spraying, phosphine gas, belongs to insecticides of fumigant exposure, which enter the respiratory system of pests and block oxygen from entering there, which quickly and effectively leads to their death.The higher the air temperature, the higher the toxicity of the substance.

You can also lay the pills themselves in the underground passages of moles, and then close them with the improvised material (board or stones) and fill them with earth on top. The expense of means makes on 3 tablets on each hole.

Important!

The process of fumigation is best done by a group of several people. When working with such poisonous gaseous substances, it is imperative to wear a respirator, a protective suit and gloves. The contents of the glass flask should be used in 1 reception, since an irreversible chemical reaction occurs when air enters it.

This tool is highly toxic to the environment, so it is not recommended to use in the garden because of the negative impact on the soil and plants.

Folk methods

Mole poison do it yourself

To prepare poisonous bait for the destruction of underground pests can be yourself. Mole poison with his own hands is prepared from wheat grains, which must be boiled beforehand. Then add any pesticide or other toxic substance to the resulting porridge, mix well.

The prepared poison in the form of balls is laid out on the territory of the plot, buried to a depth of at least 15 cm.

Such a popular method is cheaper and can replace store-based toxic agents. To increase reliability, after 2 weeks the procedure with poisoned baits should be repeated.

On a note!

Similarly, the method of fumigation comes some motorists who have invented to poison the moles with exhaust gas through a hose laid to the hole. This method does not apply to effective, because the soil in underground communications often collapses, and the gas does not pass into the depths. Its disadvantage is also the damage that is done to microorganisms in the soil and planted plants.

Another popular way of laborious enough: you need to gather up earthworms, which are the main food for moles. Treat each with rat poison by cutting it with a knife and tucking it inside, and then laying it as a poison in the underground passages.

Interesting!

In North America, poisonous bait in the form of worms is sold in the store, which makes it easier to prepare poisonous worms at home.It is enough to extract the finished worm-like poison and decompose them into mole passages.

Efficiency and reviews

Removal of moles from the garden with the help of toxic substances is the most inhuman and inappropriate way to solve this problem. After all, there is a danger that not only moles and rodents will be poisoned, birds, their pets or neighbors may suffer. Also, the poison is able to penetrate into plants growing in the garden, which will adversely affect the future harvest.

When we had a lot of moles in the spring in our garden, then no “scaring” methods were working. Then I bought in the store Anti-Mole in the form of cubes with poison for moles and mole rats. I bought several packages at once, laid out 2 cubes in each excavated hole. The number of pests has decreased, determined by the absence of fresh molehills.

Leonid, Yaroslavl

I think that to poison and destroy such cute animals is completely inhumane. After all, there are many frightening methods, ranging from bottles and ending with modern ultrasound devices.

Elena, Moscow