Title: How to rid your yard of moles or voles or both | WTOP
Headings: How to rid your yard of moles or voles or both
How to rid your yard of moles or voles or both
It’s important to know your moles from your voles
Moles vs. voles
Vibrating stakes are just a waste of good batteries
No ‘worms’ & no gum either
Give them a dose of castor oil
Mole and vole elimination

Content: Do you indeed have moles? Or voles? Moles are blind and weird looking, although humans rarely see them. They live underground and are 100 percent carnivorous, eating only beetle grubs, earthworms and cicada larvae. They eat no plants. But their extensive tunnels can ruin a lawn. ( True gophers, a la the classic movie “Caddyshack” are perhaps the worst such underground pest of all. But luckily they don’t exist anywhere near our region.) Voles are mouse-sized, shrew-like creatures with dark fur. They breed with great fecundity and are sometimes seen aboveground.