This is a mole appreciation thread
I once pet a mole as a kid, they are very soft
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024
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How large would a mole of moles be?
About 6.0 × 10^18 kilograms, about the mass of a large moon or asteroid, but not a huge one.
True moles only, or other moles too?
for instance
The naked mole-rat is eusocial and feels no pain (except when scientists inject them with substance P and put capsaicin on their skin).
It's really fucked up that we discovered they couldn't feel pain and someone committed to introducing it to them.
Mole-rat is so me coded
God I wish that was me
Unrealistic transition goal
Know of any non lethal ways of keeping them out? Their tunnels have made my yard a collapsing maze of traps and non lethals such as noise sticks aren't working. They are cute.
Simply join them and become a mole. But no i have no idea
many people are saying this
The moles are once again reaffirming the Viet-Minh's finding that tunnel-based guerilla warfare is super effective 
Sorry you're getting owned by the Cu-Chi tunnels they've set up in your yard. Don't try to follow them into the tunnels, they likely have sentry snakes, scorpions, and punji spike traps.
Non-lethal to moles or non-lethal to everything? When I worked landscaping we used a grub killing treatment for mole prevention. Any kind of repellent is going to be pretty ineffective when there's a good source of food there. The mole holes also make the soil more aerated, which makes it more suitable for grubs, too.
If it's very wet soil you can make it less attractive to grubs by not watering, changing the soil composition, and adjusting grades, but that's a lot more complicated than spreading some grubex.
I hear they also know how to make a nice sauce.
oooh Mole you are so cute and blind I will smooch you now, don't move.