Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Thrip and the damage they do...help!, 0 by Brinda

Brinda wrote:
LOL Brugie....I just can't stop laughing thinking about you standing there with a pitchfork!!! I wish you would come to Yukon and get all the little moles destroying my yard! I am just so astonished at the mess they have made in the last couple of days! I've been gone for 2 days and come home to find a gazillion tunnels all over our beautiful lawn. I even saw a few tunnels around the brugs that I put in the ground. Great....will they bother the brugs also??? I would have a fit if they did!

Someone, somewhere must have a good remedy for them! They have played havoc around here for the past 4 or 5 years and I'm getting sick of them! Last year DH dug up a flower bed around the front porch and lined it with wire (screen door wire) so we could have some bulbs.....well, guess what? Yep....they crawled over the paver landscaping and got in the bed! I hate them.....I almost think I'd rather deal with Susie's gator....at least I could see him! LOL

Wanna hear an 'almost funny story'? A couple of weeks ago I had the back door open running in and out, moving plants and planting things. After about 3 hours I had run in the house to use the restroom and when I came out and walked through the den the cat had a mole in her mouth that she had caught outside! Eeeeeeeewwwwwwwwww! I can't stand those things! LOL So of course, I was screaming at DH to get it...and he did! Whew....I was so happy it ended without a problem. Then...guess what? Oh no....about 4 hours later DH had come in from mowing and grabbed a glass of ice water and sat down on the couch to cruise the channels. I came in and sat down to chat with him for a bit. Then he noticed one of the teacup poodles being interested in something under one of the chairs in the den. Oooooo, he went over to move the chair and I think he screamed louder than I did! LOL Yep....another mole...but this one wasn't hurt! I don't know where the mole came from, or even how long it had been in the house! I would like to think that it had made it's way in that afternoon. I'm now having nightmares of getting up in the night and stepping on one of those nasty long-nosed critters!

We had a 3-legged German Shorthair Pointer up until a month ago. Can you believe I cursed this monster dog for years and now that he is gone the mole population has increased beyond anyone's belief??? Someone please help...I need a sure fire way of getting rid of these things before they destroy the whole lawn!

You will have to look close....I'm not sure you can see the tunnels they have dug today, but I'll post it anyway. This part of the lawn was lush and beautiful 2 weeks ago!