What do moles feed on in the garden, why do they dig the ground?What benefits do moles bring to the soil or from them alone?harm?

This small animal with barely noticeable eyes can bring
a lot of unpleasant moments gardener, settling in his garden. AND
he breaks his strong legs like blades with strong claws
soil, causing damage to all crops growing on the site. Mole without
tired of digging the ground, creating moves of great length – the highway,
reaching a length of several hundred meters, in search of food.

Most gardeners perceive moles
only as harmful animals, although these creatures, leaving
slides of fresh land on the surface of a beautiful lawn, destroying
pests and loose soil benefit your
site.

Determine what the benefits of moles are, you can appreciate all
possible factors of its impact on the site.

What kind of mole is he?

The main harm from moles is that these animals
great potential to destroy lawns and vegetable beds. Little animals
often confused with rodents, but in fact it is insectivorous
animals. Its food includes various underground insects, their
larvae, slugs. They almost do not eat vegetable food, they can even
die of hunger if only vegetarian is available
food.

The roots of the plants they damage not intentionally, just for
the energy needs of the mole are needed all the time
look for food. He sleeps, he is very little, he needs to work
constantly. If the animal has nothing to eat, it can not dig moves and
dies after a few hours. Within 24 hours the mole breaks
move a few tens of meters, he needs them to search
food.

Animals are adapted to life in the dark, they are practically
the blind But instead of seeing the mole has a sensitive sense of touch, good
hearing and keen sense of smell. He digs the soil with big paws like
on a shovel, in small eyes covered with membranes does not fall
mud. The nostrils are turned slightly to the side so as not to fall into them.
soil, ears outwardly not noticeable.

• Taurus no more than 100 grams in weight and up to 15 cm in length;

• Strokes needed to search for larvae and earthworms.
located at a depth of 50 cm from the soil surface;

• The animal’s nesting chamber is securely hidden 2 meters deep.
land. Крот создает сложные лабиринты, необходимые для поиска food.
In the fall, the animal constantly works, gathering up stocks for a while.
cold weather

Moles live for at least four years after they melt snow
comes in the mating season. Females bring babies after forty
days of pregnancy, up to 9 babies can be born at a time. After that
how about forty-five days will pass the babies will catch up in size
parents. Moles molt 3 times a year, probably because they
you need to constantly squeeze in narrow passages.

Mole Food Paradise

Some people are mistaken, believing that these animals eat only
plant food. In fact, moles kill ants, wasps, flies
and bear Moving underground, these creatures turn into
scary predators for any worms and insects, they can even
to cope with lizards, frogs and small snakes that
accidentally hit the hole.

But the mole is still among the other inhabitants of the underworld
prefers earthworms (in the diet of the animal the number of worms
can reach up to 85% of total food), large larvae
insects and beetles even keep them for the winter. Especially during
the search for victims a little digger creates an extensive network of moves and
through time goes around them in search of fresh prey.

Living close to the man leading his household and
cultivating the soil, the animal enters the food paradise. Going on
this is because the soil around the home is wet, soft and
fertilized, it attracts a huge number of living beings. AND в
the winter period the mole continues to create moves, leaving
Musk secretions that attract new victims.

Mole works a lot and consumes a lot of energy, for this reason
he eats up to 30 g of food at a time, and in 24 hours he can dig up to
thirty meters of course and eat a volume of food equal to the weight of all
little animal.

What is the use of moles on the plot?

Do these animals eat rodents? If they are small and hit
crap hole then yes! So he helps the host a little
houses, exterminating not only various pests of the garden, but also
gray rodents. But there is still benefit from
Moles:

1. The animal is a wonderful digger, gladly digs
the ground, burrowing down to a meter depth, at the same time enriches the upper
soil layer with minerals (lifts them out of the lower layers),
promotes air saturation of the fertile layer;

2. Excavators destroy harmful insects;

3. Eat weed seeds;

4. ANDх красивый и прочный мех ценится как пушнина. Fur coats from
such material was popular during the time of Kiev
Rus. During this period, mole products cost much more than
fur coats of sable, and giving them was to show gratitude or
confess to the woman of sympathy.

There are several reasons for the high cost of a mole coat.
The fur of this animal very thick, this quality is inherent in few
fur animals Fur coats from the fur are chosen by women
pay for it, accustomed to live in luxury. If you have a desire
become the owner of this exclusive product, you have to pay
a decent amount.

For what reason is a mole a pest?

At first, looking at this soft and sweet little animal,
you have negative feelings. Why believe that it harms
the owners of the garden, if we consider what moles eat in the garden
rodents and pests? The above advantages are
okay, but these creatures have a rich diet, and they do not destroy
only harmful inhabitants of the soil, but also earthworms that improve
soil and increasing crop.

Moles are very fond of worms, and will dig everything around until this
the delicacy is not over. In addition, it is not even a matter of taste.
the mole’s preferences, but how this happens, since they themselves
unwillingly can cause the death of garden and garden
plantings.

Ripping up the beds like a “bulldozer” they break in the bushes and
trees, go through flower beds and vegetable plantations, and others
plants, their roots are in emptiness, stop getting
food and die as a result.

Moles are harder to detect, on the treated area than in the wild.
nature, they are assisted in this by a man loosening the ground. how
the result is a mole there is no need to throw the soil to the surface,
just need to push it into the walls of the tunnel and for this reason
the animal is difficult to notice. That suffers zealous gardeners, and
can not understand why the crop dies, even with excellent care.

If you have no moles on the plot, and a handful of fresh soil is not
appear, it is desirable to immediately enclose the territory of your site
fine metal mesh that can crawl through
earthworms, but moles cannot crawl through. For this, go through
the perimeter of the ditch section is 1 meter deep, lay in it a steel
grid, leaving a 50 centimeter long section above the surface.

Attention! При появлении кротов не стоит
try to drive them out by flooding them with water. That way you don’t
reduce the harm of moles, and only be able to turn your site into
swamp, and provoke the formation of new tunnels, which animals
no doubt will do again to get around the flooded places
water