Mole Madness

Here's how to deal with mole infestations. 

Get some dry ice, gloves and a hammer. Google Dry Ice near me -- it's available from a wide variety of sources. $10 block should do fine...

Carefully uncover the tunnel of a mole mound of dirt.
Use the hammer to make a chunk of dry ice about the volume of a golf ball and using the gloves to prevent frost bite, put the chunks in the tunnel, then cover the hole with the dirt without caving the tunnel in...

Optionally, use some folded newspaper or cardboard to protect the tunnel from caving in and cover that with the dirt.

Repeat until all mounds in the yard have been treated.

Sometimes an additional treatment is needed in a few weeks if more activity shows up...

The cold, odorless CO2 pushes out the warm air and puts the moles and the grubs in the tunnels that they eat into a permanent sleep...

This technique can eliminate large communities of mole activity in one or two treatments... Frequently, they never return... Or if they do a year or two later, you know how to deal with the problem...Get some dry ice, gloves and a hammer. Google Dry Ice near me -- it's available from a wide variety of sources. $10 block should do fine...

Carefully uncover the tunnel of a mole mound of dirt.
Use the hammer to make a chunk of dry ice about the volume of a golf ball and using the gloves to prevent frost bite, put the chunks in the tunnel, then cover the hole with the dirt without caving the tunnel in...

Optionally, use some folded newspaper or cardboard to protect the tunnel from caving in and cover that with the dirt.

Repeat until all mounds in the yard have been treated.

Sometimes an additional treatment is needed in a few weeks if more activity shows up...

The cold, odorless CO2 pushes out the warm air and puts the moles and the grubs in the tunnels that they eat into a permanent sleep...

This technique can eliminate large communities of mole activity in one or two treatments... Frequently, they never return... Or if they do a year or two later, you know how to deal with the problem...