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Where do you set mole traps?

Elmer Bensinger
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Elmer Bensinger is a Pest Control Specialist with Eden Advanced Pest Technologies in Spokane, Washington. With over 20 years of experience, Elmer specializes in integrated pest management and products such as insecticides and rodenticides. He studied business at South Puget Sound Community College.

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It depends on the style of trap you're using, but they typically either go in the mole hill, on top of it, or right next to it. In either case, you're going to need to figure out where the mole actually is before you set the trap.

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What's the most effective mole trap?

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The claw-style traps that crush the mole are the most effective. Unfortunately, the live traps aren't nearly as effective as those claw traps.

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What can I use instead of a trap?

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There are machines you can buy that will pump the mole's tunnel with carbon dioxide to put it down. Those are fairly effective. The mole won't experience any pain either, if that's something you're worried about. It will just go to sleep and die quietly.

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Is there a way to increase the sensitivity of the pressure plate in the victor headset mole trap?

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To improve sensitivity, cut a 1 X 1-1/4-inch rectangular shim out of a 1/16th-inch thick piece of hard plastic and glue it inside and at the end of the 1-1/4-inch-wide iron channel that has the yellow label. The shim prevents the cocking mechanism from rotating as far past the triggering point when the trap is set.

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