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Lawn Care Service Tips - Killing Moles in Memphis

  

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Holy Moly!  Are moles tearing up your lawn?  Have you tried numerous solutions and nothing works?  Can we help?

Unfortunately, we have no application that will get rid of your furry, tunneling nemeses!  You will hear time and again that killing grubs will send the moles fleeing, because grubs are their food source.  Grubs are one of their food sources, but they mainly eat earthworms, and you don’t want to harm earthworms, because they are completely beneficial to the soil.

We do offer a Preventive Grub Control treatment, but only because sometimes homeowners will have grubs in their lawn in excess, and the grubs will actually eat the roots of their grass.  Moles, on the other hand, don’t eat your grass – they are carnivores.  They may dislodge flower bulbs and plant roots by tunneling, and they most certainly leave a mess behind, not to mention an obstacle course where you can step into a tunnel if you’re not careful.

Unfortunately, the best way to control moles is with traps.  Not what you wanted to hear, right? 

Also unfortunately, the best-kept lawns seem to be the ones with the worst mole problems.  I guess if I was a mole, I would most certainly prefer a nice lawn - much easier to tunnel through and more yummy critters in there.

The University of Arkansas has an excellent article on moles that will explain to you why you should not waste your money on poison peanuts and mole bait (in case you’re getting desperate enough to consider that) and which traps really work.  Several years ago, a gentleman told me he was so sick of the moles in his yard that he was going to sit on the back porch with his shotgun and blast as many of those suckers as he could before the neighbors called the police.  I guess there’s a breaking point for everybody!

BTW – I learned a new word while reading the article – predation.  I had to look it up.  It means “a relationship between two species of animal in a community, in which one hunts, kills and eats the other.”  Cool, huh?  (Sic your dog on them…)