[IbJensen]

Next time, try Googling:

http://doyourownpestcontrol.com/moles.htm

[DouglasKC]

Next time, try Googling: http://doyourownpestcontrol.com/moles.htm

The thing is I want to know first hand and not have to buy stuff that may or may not work.

[Gorzaloon]

Many years ago, we had a neighborhood version of "Caddyshack". We had moles and voles that were feasting on flower bulbs. "Someone" got angry and learned that a Bernzomatic MAPP torch could be stuffed down the molehole, and the valve pressed halfway down, so ignition was delayed, and the hole flooded with MAPP gas and air. Then the button was pressed, and the sparker fired,and the gas exploded. Too much flooding time would cause flying soil and rocks, so experience had to be gained.

Others in the neighborhood thought it was neat, so Saturday mornings often were punctuated with muffled thumps and vibrations in the ground.

The practice seemed to stop years ago. I do not know whether people got bored with it, or ran out of moles.

I guess moles or voles have two levels to their tunnels. The top level is for cruising and the lower level is where they live, and other methods like smoke bombs could not get both levels. Air/Fuel explosives could. They probably killed by consuming all the oxygen.

Of course, it created carbon dioxide, so you'd have to live with yourself for causing Global Warming Climate Change.