Moles are usually not after your plants, but the grubs and insects that are after your plants. Unfortunately, they often undermine plant roots (which causes damage to the plant) or just make ugly molehills and tunnels.
Physical Description
Molehills and tunnels are usually all you see of this pest, other than sunken or loose and tilted plants. To determine what underground varmints (moles, gophers, and voles) are the culprits, identification is based on the shape of the mound it makes (or doesn’t make).
- round mound = mole
- U-shaped mound = gopher
- no mound, just a small hole = vole
Species & Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Soricomorpha
- Family: Talpidae, and others
- Genus Species: various
Lifecycle
Plants Affected
Plants Unaffected
Geographical Range
Signs & Symptoms
Whole Plant
Leaves
Flowers
Fruit
Roots/Tubers
How to Positively Identify
Treatment
Prevention & Control
Cultural Controls:
Habitat:
Temperature & Humidity: