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Moles are not harmful to humans but their activities can make them a gardener’s nightmare. Homeowners who keep beautifully manicured lawns also considered moles as pests because these creatures can ruin a lawn overnight.

Moles feed on slugs, beetle larvae, earthworms and other small vertebrates that move under and around the ground. In search of these insects, moles use their tough, rough feet and long snout to dig out soil resulting to molehills and loose soil that can be easily eroded by wind and rainwater. Moles love to burrow and while doing such, they tend to destroy some of the roots of the plants and flowers in the garden as well as interfere with the root network of the grass causing the plants and the grass to wither and eventually die. When a person trips over a molehill, he is likely to get an ankle sprain. Moles are fast diggers and they can create many molehills, holes and underground tunnels overnight. If you have moles in your lawn or garden, it is advisable to find a solution before they could completely ruin your soil, grass and plants.

Moles don’t like the smell of garlic. Hence, you can opt to put ground garlic in the tunnels of moles so they will not come back to those tunnels anymore. Moles are also territorial creatures. Therefore, they do not like sharing the lawn with other moles. You can introduce sounds that are similar to the sounds moles make so that the moles in your lawn or garden will leave.