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Title: Control of field rodents on California farms
Identifier: controloffieldro535stor (find matches)
Year: 1965 (1960s)
Authors: Storer, Tracy I. (Tracy Irwin), 1889-1973; Jameson, E. W. (Everett Williams), 1921-
Subjects: Rodents
Publisher: (Berkeley, Calif. ) : Division of Agricultural Sciences, University of California
Contributing Library: University of California, Davis Libraries
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Fig. 10. Mole hill and deep burrow of a mole. Successive loads of earth are forced up as a plug through the lateral tunnel to form an irregular surface mound; the tunnel is never open. Compare with fig. 2. earth, so that the surface of the mound resembles a miniature volcano (fig. 10). The runs and surface mounds disfigure lawns, golf greens, and flower beds. In making them the mole may loosen or up- root small plants or cut the roots of larger ones. Moles partly compensate for the dam- age they do by eating soil insects and their larvae; these, together with earth- worms, are their principal food. But moles also eat sprouting seeds and bulbs to a limited extent and they cut roots of some plants when making their runs or tunnels. Control Methods Trapping. For one or a few moles,
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Fig. 11. Mole traps as set, Reddick at left, Out-o'-sight at right. Inset at upper right shows how trigger pan should press on soil above run. (20)

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