Moles are not generally herbivores. They eat insects and insect larva (grubs), beetles, and earthworms. They burrow deep down in the ground, make their nest there, but come up close to the surface to forage for bugs and worms, esp. after a rain shower, as the insects and worms will be on the move at that time and the soil is softer. Moles can damage plants and grass by all those maizes of tunneling, but they are not the ones eating your roses or veggies. Gopher, rats, mice, voles, rabbits and rats have large front teeth, made for gnawing and chewing plants and seeds and nuts. They love tender sweet roots of young seedlings (and the tops too). Roses are of the same family as apples and strawberries and these they find very yummy. My rabbit loves me to give him fresh snippets of the tender tips of rose bushes. He loves them. Rabbits will eat your blueberries to the ground. I lost all my blueberry bushes to cottontails. (Bad Peter, Bad Benjamin!) They will also chew on young trees. Now if I ever get blueberries again, I will enclose them with cages until they grow to some size. Below, I have added a link to a website all about Moles and Shrews, including a number of ghastly traps and methods used to attempt the get rid of them. ----------------------------------------------- Planting daffodils around your tulips is not just for aesthetic purposes. Tulips are edible, even for humans, but Daffodils are poisonous. Dutch bulb growers learned that by planting Daffodils in with their Tulips or rows of Daffies flanking them, helped deter rodents and other animals. I planted 2 Peruvian Daffodils (Spider Lilies) a few days ago. I planted them by my day lilies to ward off rodents. Thought the frilly creamy white spidery flowers would look terrific next to the colorful day lilies. Nothing on the package indicated that it was 'tender'. I looked them up on the Internet last night, and turns out they are VERY tender. Although we may think of Peru as mostly a cold mountainous region, this daffodil comes from the tropical forests in the hot, moist valleys far below. Well, Bugger me! I gotta go dig 'em up now, and sink them in pots out in the greenhouse before they freeze their little round bottoms off! ~SweetAnnie4u Here is a link that might be useful: Moles & Shrews

We came across this information somewhere but don't remember, but anyway we were having problems with many small critters showing up due the drought and having the animals coming up from the creek. We live on a small private lane and we were all having problems. My neighbor had baby skunks following her home when she went for her walks. We had a bunch of them tucked up under my window in a little nest. Someone told us about peppermint oil, so after spending $10 on peppermint oil at whole foods because no one else had it, we finally got rid of our intruders.. I soaked cotton balls with it and threw them under the house and all around our problem and that was about 2 years ago. So maybe it does work.. I keep a bottle in the cupboard now just in case. Good luck.. you can throw it down the holes with the voles and gophers go.. having dogs and cats help to..

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I am glad the Butterfly escaped.... I helped a Monarch get free from an Argiope web yesterday (her web is a bit high for my taste)...interestingly enough, the spider wasn't paying any interest in the B-fly....guess they prefer the grasshoppers which is just fine with me :0) I may have to move her if it happens again...