Butyric acid is praised as a miracle cure for moles. However, this fatty acid is corrosive and irritating and can harm humans and animals. Buttermilk or whey are therefore a gentle alternative to butyric acid. Find out how to use buttermilk below.
How to use buttermilk for moles?
To get rid of a mole with buttermilk, soak pieces of cloth in buttermilk, place them in the dug up molehills, close the tunnels and repeat the process after a few days until no more mounds appear.
Really get rid of a mole?
Even if he is frowned upon because of his digging work, anyone who has a mole in their garden can consider themselves lucky. Moles are great pest killers, eating half their body weight in insects per day. Voles and other garden pests feel threatened in its presence and therefore avoid gardens that harbor a mole. By digging through the soil, moles also improve the quality of the soil. In short: moles are beneficial insects and are protected as such.
Repel moles with buttermilk
If you still want to get rid of the mole, buttermilk or whey is a good option. Here you use the mole's good sense of smell for your own purposes: Who likes it when it stinks all the time at home? The fermentation of buttermilk produces small amounts of butyric acid, a smelly, corrosive acid that no one wants to be near.
Put buttermilk in the aisles
To get rid of the mole with buttermilk or whey, you need to get it as close to it as possible.
- Choose several molehills and carefully dig them up using a shovel.
- Soak pieces of fabric in buttermilk or whey.
- Put them into the uncovered passages.
- Dig up the passages again and mark the stocked mounds.
- Repeat the process after three or four days or simply pour some buttermilk into the prepared mounds.
How do you know if the mole has disappeared?
Moles dig a lot and quickly. A mole can make up to five molehills per hour. If a mole stops digging, it is probably no longer there. So keep a close eye on your garden and count the molehills. If these no longer occur for several days, the mole has probably moved. To be on the safe side and prevent the mole from coming back, you should still renew your buttermilk rags several times.
