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Moles (Talpa europaea)
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Rarely seen the mole gives itself away by the piles of earth, excavated from its tunnels, it leaves in a trail across lawns and fields.
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Food
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90 per cent of the moles diet is earthworms in winter, but they also eat slugs, millipedes and insect larvae which they find in the soil.
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Habitat
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Moles like woods and grasslands, including orchards and lawns or anywhere where there is an abundance of earthworms.
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Important points
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Moles are not blind, they have tiny eyes that can detect light and movement, but little else.
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Young moles are an important part of a tawny owls diet in spring.
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Do not use poison or gas to rid your lawn of moles.
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Moles are sensitive to vibration so to get rid of moles from your lawn without harming them use a vibrating (a childs windmill stuck in the ground may work) or sonic device.
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It is said that putting mothballs into a moles run will deter it.
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For more information about moles please visit:-
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Wildforms, Keepers Cottage, Glenstockadale, Leswalt, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, DG9 0LU
email: pete@wildforms.co.uk Telephone: 01776 870453
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