Preparation and Advice

If you have moles in your garden or on your land, please call your pest controllers now 0800 0854460 we cover the whole of East Anglia.
We may be able to give you a price and solution over the phone, or depending the extent of infestation a survey will need to be arranged.
Moles are certainly not the gardener’s best friend, and can soon destroy the look of a garden, and can create uneven ground buy how they make their tunnel formations underground.
Their behaviour in ravenously hunting for worms and grubs create huge tunnel formations underground and often expose roots to the elements leading to grass areas being completely eroded.
Moles are most active between October and April before the breeding season and when the soil is wetter and easier to dig, the tunnels will be used throughout the rest of the year to provide a food source to help feed the young.
Heavy infestations on agricultural land can destroy crops and cause huge financial costs.
If a treatment programme is carried out in a domestic garden we ask you to keep children and pets away from the trapping area.

Treatment

If you have moles in your garden or on your land, please call your local expert mole catchers 0800 0854460 we cover the whole of East Anglia, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
There are two main treatment processes that will be carried out and these will be discussed on your initial phone call to the office, it may be for more extensive areas that a survey will be required particularly on commercial land.
Majority of treatments will be controlled between October and April and where possible we will be using scissor, claw and tunnel traps that will be checked daily. Depending on activity usually over a 5 day period.
We have trained pest controllers in the use of gassing agents to also control moles but prefer eradicating a mole infestation using the trap method.
Please see below mole caught using a scissor mole trap.

Signs you have Moles

The most obvious sign of a mole infestation will be the appearance of mole hills in the garden where the moles are tunnelling to create the feeding channels. Sometimes the runs can be very shallow and you can see them on the surface of the garden areas.
Disruption of flowers and bedding plants can be another indication of mole workings as they are attracted to moist soil where worms are most active particularly when the soil cools and becomes moist around late Autumn.
Although moles will tunnel up to 20 metres a day it is common, they will create a large chamber within the formation and line it with grass where they will use it as a ‘resting’ or ‘home’. Many generations of moles will use these areas if not disturbed.

Mole Facts

Moles are the only native pest species to the UK that were not introduced by man, in fact the specie is so old it is difficult to claim exactly where and when it originated.
Moles can live up to three years and can be quite territorial particularly if one finds another tunnel system, they will be found to be quite unwelcomed.
Moles will store earthworms, hundreds at a time, making sure in harder winters and dryer summers they still have access to a suitable amount of food all year round.
They give birth underground in spring and have one litter ranging from 2-8 babies. The babies will stay in the chamber for around 4-6 weeks then be put to work tunnelling and foraging.
An extra thumb can be found on each forelimb to aid in the extensive digging operations.
Moles are protected under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, which states you can be jailed and fined for causing any unnecessary suffering to the animal, this doesn’t mean they cannot be controlled or eradicated but there are protocols to be followed which can be explained when you book your visits.