Title: How to Get Rid of Gophers - Pest Control Products
Headings: How to Get Rid of Gophers
How to Get Rid of Gophers
Table of Contents
A Natural Digging Machine
Know Your Gopher
Is It a Gopher or a Mole?
How Deep Do Gophers Dig?
Just How Destructive Are Gophers?
Buying the Right Trap
Locating the Gopher Tunnel Site
Setting Your Traps
Checking Your Traps and Removing Dead Animals
Trapping on a Larger Scale
Nine Methods for Getting Rid of Gophers Naturally
1. Choose plants that gophers don’t like to eat.
2. Use “psy ops” (psychological operations) purge gophers.
3. Drive away gophers with odors they do not like.
4. Give gopher’s tummy trouble with castor oil.
5. Protect the root systems of prized plants with mesh wire.
6. Trap and release gophers.
7. Flood your gophers out.
8. Smoke your gophers out.
9. Live and let live.
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Content: Usually identifying gophers is not a major concern for homeowners. In a few areas of the western United States, however, certain species of gophers are under consideration for federal regulation as protected species. If you live in western Washington state or Colorado, check with your local wildlife office before you trap or kill any gopher, to avoid substantial fines if you are caught. Is It a Gopher or a Mole? Both gophers and moles do damage to shrubs and bedding plants by killing their roots. Both gophers and moles can be trapped for relatively easy pest control, but knowing whether your pest is a gopher or a mole is critical for choosing the right trap. A trap that is large enough to catch a gopher may be ignored by mole, and a trap that is small enough to catch a mole can be evaded by a gopher. The best proof that the tunnels in your lawn and the dead or dying shrubs and bedding plants are caused by gophers is mounds of fresh soil. Gophers dig extensive tunnels in which they dine on the roots and stems of above-ground plants. Unlike moles, however, they dig side tunnels from their main tunnel to empty it of dirt.