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The Mole
Molecatcher History
Mole traps have developed in many countries to catch the mole in the tunnel, from roman times with clay pots and 18th century with willow spring traps and horse hair twine. Today we use metal traps with a quick reacting spring that dispatch the mole very quickly and as humanely as possible.
The European Mole (Talpa europaea) lives in a tunnel system, feeding in the tunnel system eating mainly earthworms, believed to eat half their body weight in food a day, and pushing the displaced earth to the surface creating the tell tale molehills. With a short breeding season in spring having a litter from two to five and the young leaving in June.
All parishes once had a molecatchers and in the eighteen hundreds a good molecatcher would be contracted by a parish and estates to control the moles, with a bonus of selling the mole skins when the fashion for the soft fine fur in gloves and other garments created a need. Today there are very few pest controllers who concentrate on this elusive creature and have studied its habits and lifestyle essential to successfully catch them..