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No, this is not about a Minnesota spelunking team. It’s about moles, and the title addresses a problem we have no shortage of in our fair state. There are 7 species of moles in North America. The ones we deal with here in Minnesota are the eastern mole and the star nose mole. How do you know it’s a mole? Here’s some helpful info. Moles will mound dirt similar to that of a pocket gopher. The easiest way to tell the difference between the two is that the pocket gopher mound starts out as a half moon shape. A mole mound starts out round and stays round with a domed look to it. Moles push clumps of dirt up in the making of its mound. The pocket gopher throws it up and out, giving the dirt a sifted look. The biggest mole mound that I found measured 2 ½’ in diameter and 1 ½’ high. Here’s more: due to the makeup of the mole's blood they get all the oxygen they need from the ground and do not need holes in their system to breath. In fact, they hate holes and repair them daily. So a rule of thumb is... an open hole is not a mole. The holes we fi nd in some mole tunnels can be blamed on a couple of other culprits, the vole and the shrew. The shrew runs up and down the mole’s tunnel stealing its food, and the vole; well, he likes to run up and down those tunnels to hide if need be, or to chew on the roots of all the plants the mole has tunneled by. Ever see a mole? They are about the size of a chipmunk ranging between 5 to 6+ inches in length. Moles are not rodents, they are insectivores, meaning they will eat all sorts of insects, larva (grubs and such) and earthworms being there main source of energy; and what an appetite! These little creatures have to eat 85% to 100% of their body weight each day just to avoid starving to death, and will consume 40 to 50 pounds of worms and other insects in a year’s time. Ever see 40-50 lbs of worms or insects? Doesn’t seem like much but, in comparison, the average human male with that kind of appetite would have to eat 120 to 150 pounds of hamburger each day… or over 200,000 quarter pounders in a year. Contrary to popular belief, a mole does not live on a straight diet of grubs, so killing grubs will not totally kill your mole problem and as far as I know there is no registered product to kill earthworms.

The mole is a territorial critter taking anywhere from ½ to a full acre for their territory. Considering the female can only produce 2 to 5 offspring a year with 3 being average, you can expect 1 to 4 moles on a one acre or less lot depending on whether it is a female with juveniles, or a single male. Nevertheless, just one or several of these puppies can do a tremendous amount of damage to your lawn and fl owers. So, with that said,-- let’s talk about how they get around. Moles cannot store any fat due to their metabolism, so the mole remains active all year long even winter. Because it does not hibernate it forces them to go below the frost line to chase earthworms during the winter, thus making their tunnels quite extensive. The tunnels we normally get to see from above ground are primarily used for warm weather feeding. The tunnels we want to place traps on are the main tunnels that take them to and from their various feeding areas. Now moles can travel through tunnels at around 80’ per minute. They can also do a summersault mid tunnel to head in the other direction very quickly. Their fur was even made to lay down in either direction so they can move backwards and forwards with no problem. Those mole tunnels we hate so much can be created at a rate of about 18 feet/hour. Even more interesting is that it can be so straight it’d look like they got out of their tunnel and snapped a chalk line to follow. Suffi ce it to say there’s a lot of power in these little fellas. In fact, if the average human was built like a mole, they could apply an outward force with their arms of up to 4,800 pounds.

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