Moles again. The final solution?

[wr.]

I've been trying out something which my neighbour told me he'd been doing for a few years since the ban on strychnine with great success to be honest.
Soak the worms in Ironbru which kills them in a matter of seconds and drop them in the mole runs as we used to do with the strychnine ones. I have cleared most of the farm of moles through March. Give it a try.

 

[Stw88]

Good old April fools you nearly had me there!

 

[DrDunc]

Good old April fools you nearly had me there!

I've drank irn bru to alleviate far too many hangovers and it sounded plausible to me until I read your post

Well done @wr.

 

[Bill dog]

I thought we were back at dropping marshmallow down the runs kills em for sure!🫣

 

[ritchiekirkland]

I found a better solution than any if these . I bought some new traps and put the wife into mole catching instead much better results

 

[Col555]

 

[Farfrae]

I'm glad someone else pointed out the date.

There have been a lot of moles around this year and I've caught a fair few myself since Christmas. A friend told me that mole trappers around here are now charging £17 a mole what's the going rate where you are?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I'm glad someone else pointed out the date.

There have been a lot of moles around this year and I've caught a fair few myself since Christmas. A friend told me that mole trappers around here are now charging £17 a mole what's the going rate where you are?

£10 here 56 caught in two afternoons on the silage ground
Another lad charges £8

 

[Henery]

£10 here 56 caught in two afternoons on the silage ground
Another lad charges £8

Wow ! …. how many traps were out to do that ?

 

[serf]

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Wow ! …. how many traps were out to do that ?

No Idea sorry ,im just a tractor driver lol

 

[DrDunc]

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No Idea sorry ,im just a tractor driver lol

Surely he didn't try driving through that?

Forgot the handbrake or is he as blind as the moles?

Lovely "silage" fields.....

 

[David.]

You will never win against moles, in times of stress, like dry summers, etc, females revert to laying eggs. These eggs are almost as resilient as coccidiosis in the environment, and each time you think you have cleared a population out, a new flush hatch.
On an individual basis of course, there is only one way to catch a mole...

 

[DrDunc]

You will never win against moles, in times of stress, like dry summers, etc, females revert to laying eggs. These eggs are almost as resilient as coccidiosis in the environment, and each time you think you have cleared a population out, a new flush hatch.

Are the eggs irn bru or marshmallow flavoured?

 

[David.]

That is their great evolutionary secret, they are not easily found, so I cannot say.
I suspect that they probably taste a bit like chicken's.

 

[wr.]

Legend has it that they are laid among worms eggs and are the same colour which fools the worms into rearing the young moles. I bet Packham didn't know that! Isn't nature wonderful.

 

[Hilly]

You will never win against moles, in times of stress, like dry summers, etc, females revert to laying eggs. These eggs are almost as resilient as coccidiosis in the environment, and each time you think you have cleared a population out, a new flush hatch.
On an individual basis of course, there is only one way to catch a mole...

I know how to clear moles , become and arable farm , you never moles in arable , i had a mole catcher caught alot here and i said you must be a mole millionaire as you have 30000 acre arable to go at , he laughed and said i catch more moles on you farm than all that arable , so thats it my place is going arable

 

[David.]

I know how to clear moles , become and arable farm , you never moles in arable , i had a mole catcher caught alot here and i said you must be a mole millionaire as you have 30000 acre arable to go at , he laughed and said i catch more moles on you farm than all that arable , so thats it my place is going arable

Not so true if you have pasture land in the rotation I find.

 

[Radio]

This one was determined to be caught crawled through the keeper before setting trap off. Moles locally were called unts and made unt heps.

 

[Av Gorritt]

Good old April fools you nearly had me there!

I nearly fell for it too !