Moles

Not to be cute but Lucky our rotty/shepard mix smells moles out, digs them up, crushes them and moves on.

For mice we take anything that a mouse can use for bedding and put it in a big sealed tote. We also vacuum the pantry and make sure all crumbs or other items they like are up. Never have had a mouse problem and we live in the country. Our current fiver has a sealed underbelly save the front legs but that is independent of the rest of the fiver.

Moles? The only way I have ever seen to get rid of them, and keep them gone involves getting rid of grubs. Nothing to eat? Gone.

Moles, I used to watch the tunnels as the were digging,then just pour some gas on the end. For mice,mothballs work good,but you need to really air out the camper afterwards. I dump a box in our sheds every few months.

jetboater454 wrote:
For mice,mothballs work good,but you need to really air out the camper afterwards. I dump a box in our sheds every few months.

At our seasonal campground, a camper a few sites down from us, put mothballs under the trailer, not inside the trailer. I'd smell the mothballs whenever I'd walk by, but inside the camper it didn't smell if the door and windows weren't open. I would imagine mothballs outside would work better than inside as the mice wouldn't even go near the trailer.

-Michael

Moved from ATC

Use a product ti kill the bugs in the ground and the moles go away. Also a heavy dose of lawn fertilizer will run them off

Try this, put one next to each tire, ( on the back side) , kid & pet safe.https://www.tomcatbrand.com/en-us/products/mouse-baits/tomcat-mouse-killer-child-dog-resistant-disposable-station

For mice, you need to plug ALL the holes on the bottom of the RV. I used steel wool plugs then filled them with spray foam. For moles, park a running lawn mower on top of one of their tunnels for a bit every couple days and just let it run until out of gas. The racket drives them nuts. And as long as they get crazy before you do, all will be well.

JRscooby wrote:
Moles? The only way I have ever seen to get rid of them, and keep them gone involves getting rid of grubs. Nothing to eat? Gone.

Heard that as well from exterminator.

OP, we live in the mountains where mice are prevalent.
Only method that has ever worked and we've tried everything under the sun is simply prevent entry.

After dark, turn on every light in trailer and open every cabinet door, pull out drawers.
Now climb under trailer with a can of spray foam and chase the light.

We had a problem with moles at our old home. I tried several methods to get rid of them.
it was humid and warm one summer and we had the blsck mold on the fescue and slime molds on a few boulders.
i put out granular, I think, fungacide. A day or so later, after some rain, we heard squeaking in the yard. Moles were running here and there. The rain dissolved the fungacide into the ground. Moles feed on worms and grubs and bugs, and even little snakes.
They didn't like the fungacide.It irritated them or something.
I caught one off them and daughter took it to school for show and tell.
It ate every cricket and bug dropped into the little plastic cage. They eat continously and a lot.
The moles are after the worms and grubs. We have a lot of grubs that eat grass and other roots in one section now. If I spot a mole I will try to catch and release it there. The falcon, and others, that we had around from high up in the oaks caught some moles in the other part of the field yard. They see the ground move and know it is a rodent or mole. They are never very deep being right up near the roots, or so it seems. The only thing with the fungacide is it kills the worms, European Earth Worms that are everywhere now. I don't know if we have native earthworm, other than the huge some as big as small snakes found sporatically.
oh the moles left or died.
On edit: I have heard that chickens will kill them as they do small mice and snakes, but I don't know.They dig them out when they see the earth move.
Kids have some exotic chickens but I or someone would have to stand guard because of the coyotes which killed 9 in the pen...and the falcons and hawks and eagles which would set up housekeeping again when they cruise through.
It strikes me that Grubacide would kill them too...but I don't know.