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

They are super cute and pretty funny. They will lay in the shade of the pots on my porch and sprawl out on their stomach, all limbs sticking out. Hilarious. I have read that they can be pretty bad pests but our yard isn't really a yard, it is a prairie and we live in a townhome so we have like, a few random trees and some flowers next to the porch and that's it. My only annoyance is they like to kick up the mulch everywhere.

Well, on that particular day I was testing out my brand new Fuji S5200 while my dad and neice were fishing nearby. At the end of the day, I turned my back for a second and darned if that girl didn't drop my camera bag, camera and all, right into the bucket of fish and stinky, gooey fish water and say "Look, the fishes can take pitchers of themselves". Talk about what will bring ya to tears. Anyways, the camera was toast, so I got the same new one a few days later.

Thanks for the replies. For what it's worth, I went with a Primos TruthCam 35 which has been reasonably good. To get better footage, I'd probably need to dedicate more power to the endeavor. (In trying to prolong battery charge, I've sacrificed trigger speed, so I get a lot of tail ends.)