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Three good reasons why you should leave the mole in your garden alone

2022-11-10T09:50:20.576Z


Three good reasons why you should leave the mole in your garden alone Created: 11/10/2022 10:41 am By: Juliane Reyle Small, almost blind, and more beneficial than pest, moles are often wrongly mistaken for parasites and driven out of gardens. That's why he can stay. Tastes are known to differ, but the majority of people would rather do without the small mammals in the garden. Anyone who tends


Three good reasons why you should leave the mole in your garden alone

Created: 11/10/2022 10:41 am

By: Juliane Reyle

Small, almost blind, and more beneficial than pest, moles are often wrongly mistaken for parasites and driven out of gardens.

That's why he can stay.

Tastes are known to differ, but the majority of people would rather do without the small mammals in the garden.

Anyone who tends a lawn in the garden is quickly bothered by the unsightly mounds of earth that moles produce.

Some garden fans drive away the small animal or even want to kill it.

Moles are also mistaken for pests - they are even useful for the garden.

Three comments on why you shouldn't drive the mole out of the garden or even kill it

  • Mole is a species protection: Of course, no living creatures should be killed arbitrarily, but in the case of the mole it is even forbidden by law.

    According to the Federal Nature Conservation Act, moles are among the specially protected animal species.

    Therefore, they must not be poisoned with bait, smoked out, hunted down or killed in any other way.

    Depending on the federal state, fines of between 10,000 and 50,000 euros are specified in the

    2022 catalog

    of fines for catching, injuring or killing moles, but also for damaging their breeding sites and resting places.

  • Mole helps the gardener: He has a bad reputation, but in reality the mole is not interested in the plants grown in the garden.

    Roots and bulbs of the flowers remain intact.

    On the contrary: the mole is regarded as a biological pest controller.

    The beneficial insect loosens the soil and feeds on insects, snails, worms, grubs (beetle larvae) and small mice, which can otherwise infest the cultivated fruit and vegetables.

  • No need to worry: Moles also have natural enemies - so it is almost impossible for the little earthworms to get the upper hand.

    There is no reason to take a wild animal like the mole from life or its natural habitat.

    Nature regulates itself. The enemies of the mole include, for example, the tawny owl, the barn owl or the common buzzard.

  • A European mole: The animal has an energy-saving mode.

    © Patrick Pleul/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa

    Natural ways to keep moles out of the garden - plants and smells he doesn't like

    If you still want to do without the mole in the garden or fear a mole plague, you should use more animal-friendly variants as forbidden poison or traps.

    With noise and smells, driving away the moles should work.

    There are also plants that moles do not like: the imperial crown, elderberry, wormwood or lilies are said to have a repellent effect on moles and can be used to keep earth dwellers away in the long term, writes

    Schaedlingsvernichtung.de

    .

    Would you rather cultivate an animal-friendly garden instead of driving away moles?

    Times are changing: mechanized agriculture and industrialization deprive small mammals of their habitat and food.

    Moles, which only weigh about 100 grams, already have it tough enough, so the peaceful burrowers should be accepted in the garden.

    With a few ideas, you can even make the garden animal-friendly and comfortable for small wild animals: for example, leaves should be left for hedgehogs and feeding squirrels in winter can make sense.

    However, unlike moles, voles are really harmful to the garden.

    There are a few signs you can tell if you have a vole in your yard.

    But be careful, the molehill can easily be confused with a vole hill.

    Source: merkur

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