Pest Control Specialist

wannabe commodity success asked:


A friend lives in Woodland Hills and has many gophers in am empty lot next to his house, digging holes and their numbers are growing. He wants to rid himself of them but does not want to kill them or use chemicals, or hire anyone to do that type of thing. Is there any natural solution or remedy to this problem? Anything that will make them seek greener pastures and just go away? This is a common type of gopher, location is in southern california and the climate is hot and dry because its located in a valley. It will soon be reaching high temperatures of 115 degrees or more in the summer. Thanks for any suggestions.

scubadiver50704 asked:


I am not even certain of which ones I have; gophers or moles. But I am tired of them. I have purchased and tried two types of traps.One from Mole Pro and then the typical spring loaded long tine and spear type trap.

I have used two or three types of poisons. Who knows if it works or not? I have even shot them with both a 22 caliber rifle and a 20 guage shot gun.Yes I live in the country. Luckily. Sound like Caddy Shack yet?

My latest possible attempt might be a different type of trap I saw my father had borrowed from his neighbor. This trap is from a company called Nash Products Inc. Don’t really want yet a third style of trap and I don’t want to have to treat 4 acres of grass / gardens with grub killer either.. I’ve heard that’s what attracts them. Kill the grubs and they go away. It would be rather expensive to do the size of area I am dealing with.

Can anyone show me an easy way out before I get the back hoe out?

Lisa P asked:


How do I go about finding this answer? A sample of sodium tertraborate (Na2B4O7 * 10 H20) is heated and loses 1.8 g of mass. How many moles of water have been removed? How many moles of anhydrous salt are produced?

HERB Z asked:


I have a continuing problem with gophers in my lawn area. i have tried poison, water and gas. Nothing seems to work for any extened period of time.
Does anyone know a foolproof methed that is not too expensive?