Eradicating a mole in your yard is almost next to impossible — unless you use a spring-loaded trap that makes sure the varmint never returns again. In the past, spring-loaded traps were diffi… ...

Now, there’s a better mole trap, thanks to Sweeney and its new Deadset Mole Trap. It features an ergonomic handle, easy-grasp handle that even small, weak hands can set.

Easy to use, pets can’t mess with it. Each year, a new mole arrives from the woods behind our house. Each year, the new moles uses the same tunnel to get into my yard. All I have to do is wait ...

There are special mole traps designed to take advantage of this behavior. Harpoon and choker loop traps encircle or are suspended above the runway. The trap’s trigger pan rests on the dirt blockage.

Josie asks Steve for advice in setting up booby traps to catch the mole in the house. By Tom Ayres Published: 12 June 2010.

Dando charges an initial fee for setting the traps, and then around £10 for each trapped mole. Occasionally, he has requests to catch moles for coats. He always turns them down.

A single mole can dig many feet of tunnels; one study found a single mole constructed 31 m of surface tunnels in a day. Biologists actually know very little about moles compared to many species. It is ...