There’s A Gopher/Mole In The Yard
We all like spending time outside in the garden. We are not fond however of vermin spoiling the fun. We are lucky nowadays that we have developed a technology that will not harm us people, particularly the old and little ones, and other creatures that do not pose a threat at all to our garden or to humans. Unlike before when we used traps, chemicals or pesticides, today, we have electronic yard fences, ultrasonic devices, and strobe lights that can do the job in eliminating the pests in the yard.
In this way, undesirable animals such as gophers, moles, squirrels, deer, cats, dogs and others cannot get inside the yard at the same time their lives will be spared. How safer can it be even for the pests. A high frequency sound or vibration is emitted from these ultrasonic devices that stings the animal’s ears thus keeps them from moving near. My friend has a garden who is constantly run down by squirrels and she totally loathes them. Not only did they destroyed her garden, they also destroyed parts of the house including the chairs that were on the deck. They ate the coverings of the chairs. The ultrasonic device that she acquired and used was very effective! Today, she is contented and its obvious the squirrels lived to haunt another house.
Gophers and moles can do significant damage to your yard, shrubberies and plants. With all the surface tunnels and heaps of soil on your newly mowed lawn, that is sure to give you a headache and a pain in the feet because you might trip yourself going all about the damages they have caused. Because their home is situated below the ground, what they usually do is burrow their way up making an aeration tube for them to use. The problem is they do it in your well-cared yard. A stretch of several miles and 2 to 5 feet deep, that is how their tunnels measure. Digging is in their nature and they can have 12 babies the most in a brood. What they eat, they automatically convert it to energy so their bodies do not stock up fat and that is why they do not hide away and sleep. The estimated yearly intake of food for a mole is 40 pounds. It’s their way of life -dig, eat, dig eat. Worms are vital in plant growth, they burrow in the soil to allow air to be absorbed by the plants’ roots. However, moles prevent them from doing so because they become mole food. Plants are what the gophers eat, usually the roots and plant material.
The surface tunnels made by moles are usually twisted while tunnels made by gophers, which they seldom do, are linear. Moles will make a small volcano like mound, and a gopher will make a more irregular, kidney bean shaped one. If you have a garden covered in healthy flourishing lawns, these creatures will be all over the place. Gophers and moles chew on roots of trees, grains, grasses, shrubs and a variety of vegetables. They like lilies, irises, tulips, carrots, peas, and beans. A mole’s favorite food are grubs, worms, and insects, but they also eat plant materials. On the other hand, gophers prefer nice juicy plant material. Gophers, moles, voles, chipmunks, and woodchucks are very intelligent animals. These creatures are notorious in their elusion from our old ways of pest control such as traps, baits and poisons.
There is no question that if you have gophers or moles in your yard, you will know by the mounds, tunnels and damage. I am a lover of life. I cannot kill. I move spiders out of the house and snakes towards the lake (I know what you’re thinking, “Why on earth would she do that?”) So, I wouldn’t recommend killing them to get rid of them, but trying one of the many alternative ultrasonic devices available.
