Mole Problem

We notice molehills (raising and cracking soil) in our garden under a pecan tree. Mole is a kind of rodent that lives in tunnels underground and eat earthworms or even small mice.


Molehills goes underneath plants, in this picture lavender, and although moles do not eat plants root, they indirectly damage roots and could kill plants. Our two delphiniums are already down.


We try to control it by inserting poison (calcium carbide and strychnine) to the tunnels, in this picture by a Fire and Ice hosta. Somehow these poisons are banned in Britain, but not in the US.


Poison inserted into mole tunnel by a gerbera daisy.


Interesting fact: Male moles are called boars and female moles sows. Just like pigs.
Source of info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole