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.

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 ...

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.

Simply eating the roots found along each tunnel system wouldn’t be worth the energy required. “Something didn’t click,” Putz says. Every meter of tunnel a gopher dug would cost it about a ...

Studies have shown owls can certainly eat a lot of rodents--there’s evidence that an owl family can easily dispatch 1,000 gophers in a year, plus assorted voles, mice, shrews and moles.

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).

Pocket gophers spend pretty much their entire lives underground, excavating multiple horizontal tunnels that run up to 160 m (525 ft) in length. Their diet consists mainly of plant roots, which ...