They are not very long in body, about 6-8 inches. Moles like to eat the worms, snails, slugs and insects underground; however, the tunneling disrupts plant roots, bulbs and grass.

What needs help: At Golden Gate Park's Big Rec fields, the grass that was once green is getting browner and browner in many spots, while gopher holes are multiplying, much to the concern of ...

All herbivores eat plants, and everybody poops,” says J.T. Pynne, a wildlife biologist at the Georgia Wildlife Federation in Covington who studies southeastern pocket gophers.

Gophers can be destructive, eating your plants and killing or stunting the growing of trees. Moles, however, are harmless and the most damage they do is to the aesthetics of yard as they leave ...

I've tried bait (which sprouts into verdant weedy grass), Juicy Fruit gum (which must be someone's idea of a cruel joke), and gopher smoke bombs (which didn't seem to do much).

A gopher tortoise eats along on Inlet Drive on July 6, 2024. The threated species and its burrows are protected under Florida law.