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Also know the difference between an exploratory tunnel and a primary use tunnel.
Primary use tunnels are generally straight or straight and branching. Use the dowel rod to ensure that
you have an active, primary tunnel. Damage to active tunnels will be repaired within 12-24 hours. Busted.

Exploratory tunnels will be aimless or spider web like and are generally abandoned after digging.
No sense in baiting an exploratory tunnel. They are dug to discover new food sources. Moles must eat
their own weight in worms daily to maintain their extremely high metabolism. No worms in 12-24 hours=dead mole.

Moles meet to breed once a year. Outside breeding season, two moles meet in a tunnel, only one will survive.

WHATEVER YOU DO, if you are using Talparid worms or any other bait, USE GLOVES! Your scent is on
that bait, you might as well pour it into the garbage can, it will NOT be accepted. Poke your holes
in the various runs, come back a day or two later, look for plugged holes to mark active runs. Find the
active run, drop in a Talparid worm, if the dirt is soft and moist, pinch the hole closed, if it is dry, cover with
leaf litter. But again, if you can't find an active run, try again tomorrow. No sense in baiting an un-used tunnel.
One Talparid worm will kill a mole. Better to spend more time in evaluation of active tunnels than to throw all your
bait into tunnels that may not be active runs, just to be done with it. This is the hardest game in pest control.
Patience will win the day.