They cause little harm - small mounds on the surface that spoil the appearance of the area. Therefore, moles should be caught and deported to a distant wasteland. There are mole traps for this. But, in order not to waste money, you can catch it using improvised means.
Will need
To catch a mole, we will use the objects that surround us:
- three-liter glass jar;
- bayonet shovel and spatula;
- a lid from a large saucepan;
- bait;
- boiled gloves.
The procedure for catching a mole in a farmstead
We find a mound of earth dug by a mole, remove the soil and look for a hole under it. To do this, we tear off a shallow hole with a bayonet shovel, then on its walls it is easier to see the passages dug by the mole.
We definitely put boiled gloves on our hands, otherwise this animal, with a sensitive sense of smell, will detect the presence of a person and will avoid this area of its burrow.
Carefully remove the soil with a spatula and your hands until you find a hole. There should be two of them, becausewe destroyed part of it under the mound. Focusing on these two passages, between them we dig a hole with a depth equal to the height of a three-liter jar.
We place a glass container at the bottom of the hole and place earthworms in it - bait for moles.
Carefully fill the jar, covering the neck with at least a piece of wood, all the way to the top, but not the holes. Having finished filling, remove the wood.
Cover the entire perimeter of the pit with the jar and passages with a large metal pan lid.
We sprinkle its edges with earth so that there are no cracks, otherwise the mole will feel a draft and refuse to use this part of the hole.
We leave the trap alone for a while, after which we check to see if the mole is caught in the jar. And so several times a day. If we are lucky, but not the mole, he will eventually end up in a jar from which he will never get out.
The check is simple. Lift the lid and set it aside. We lower a thin stick into the jar so that part of it protrudes above the neck. If the mole is in the jar, then he will start poking at the stick, and its top will move.
We take the jar out of the filling and make sure that the mole still got into it. All we have to do, given his Red Book status and humane attitude towards animals, is to take him away and release him. He won't be lost here.
Once free, it will vigorously work with its front paws with powerful claws and will soon disappear underground.
