BonideMOLEMAX Mole & Vole Repellent Granules, 10 lbs. Ready-to-Use, Outdoor Lawn & Garden Mole Control, People & Pet Safe

I had voles and groundhogs in my yard and the voles definitely packed up and left town. There’s no sign of the vole holes in my yard anymore. The groundhogs are also gone and I have been trying to get rid of them for years.

Product works. It makes them move elsewhere but doesn't kill them. If your neighbors are using the same approach, or you are bounded by the street, it's not going to help alone.I used it previously as instructed and they left for 2 months. They arrived a few weeks ago with their cousins so I reordered. My corner lot has two streets and the driveway bordering, so they can only go out one direction. Neighbor's house is a vacation home, and their yard isn't kept up - it's full of weeds and critters. We have a big dune between our house too, so that is the direction I was pushing them.I applied the first bag heavy for 1/2 the yard, pushing away from house to street. My plan was to leave a 4-6 foot corridor for them to move to. If you surround the entire yard, they have nowhere to go and just stay. The next day I did the second bag, starting about halfway and working toward the street. I left the corridor as planned, again, because they cant run away under the street or driveway. I also added a 5# bag of cayenne pepper to the spreader.Stupid me. I should have had a 3rd bag to put over the corridor later, but I thought I'd see how it went. I then went out of town for 10 days. When I came back, the corridor I left was destroyed with mole holes. They just all moved into that area and I think I saw a taco bar in one hole.It became war. I ordered the Tom Cat mole killer earthworm gummies, poked holes with my finger, found the chunnels, and dropped in 10, waited a day, found the new runs the next day, dropped the other 10, and "got rid" of 80% of the activity.I then looked at molemax ingredients and found that the key ingredient is, basically, solidified castor oil. I got some 2 gallon spray castor oil mole repellent, mixed with dish soap per instructions, and repeated the process, applying with a 2 gallon hand sprayer (with 2 gallons of water). I drove them to the street again. I waited 2 days, found the active tunnels, added TomCat worms. Next day, reapplied the castor oil mix all the way to the street. 4 days later, only one or two active tunnels or pop ups. I TomCatted again and got rid of them. Dead.So, MoleMax works as intended, but make sure to follow the instructions that say it takes 3 applications as you evict them elsewhere. The castor oil liquid mole solution is much cheaper, but more of a pain to apply and messy, and you have to add dish soap (which I didn't know), which raises the cost back to Molemax price. Just go with Molemax and a yard spreader. But, since pushing them to your neighbors is somewhat immoral, and they can be pushed right back, I say push them away, watch to see where they are moving, and send them much deeper to hell with the TomCat mole killer.You can see in the photos where they all arrived in my corridor and ransacked the place high on cayenne.

When used as instructed, this has worked the best out of everything I have tried to keep voles out of my yard.

I have tried all kinds of traps and poisons for gophers. I decided to try this despite little available research-based evidence that it works. It definitely does not work well in a localized application to protect a tree/plants, but it might work a little to deter from a bigger area.Evidence: I wanted to protect the roots of a young citrus tree that a gopher was interested in. I spread this heavier than recommended in a 6 ft radius around the tree. Watered it in as instructed. The gopher was back with new tunnels and mounds right where this stuff was the very next night! I then put this stuff directly in soil that I used to plug the main tunnel about 2 ft long, also as directed. The next morning the gopher had re-excavated directly through the heavily laced main tunnel!I then spread the rest of the bag using a spreader across a larger area of adjacent grass that also had gopher activity. This area measured about 20' X 60'. I laid it down heavier than recommended. to give it the best chance of working. We could smell it during the evening in the yard. With this bigger application the gophers seemed to have been annoyed and moved away from that area to an adjacent untreated area as intended. Hard to know if that was coincidence or the product worked better when used across a bigger area.It seems a determined gopher will just ignore this in a local space that they like, but they might be annoyed enough by it in a bigger space to move to another space.

It didn't work for Armadilo. I applied more than enough in my front yard, and the next morning, I found the Armadillo had dug 100s of holes. I reapplied, and the next morning still found 2-3 holes. Not sure if the lower count was for the repellent or the Armadillo was lazy. The amount I applied should have kept the armadillo away from my yard, but that didn't happen.

This definitely moves the moles along, at least in my small yard. I have a weird situation where they are bound in by concrete (driveway, sidewalk, stairs, house foundation) on all sides, so hard to say where exactly they are going, but honestly, I don’t care that much as long as it is away from my yard.I use a small handheld gardening shovel to make holes into their tunnels and pour the Mole Max in. Then I stomp the tunnels down, sprinkle the rest of the yard (except for an “escape” path for them) with the product and water with the hose for 10 min or so. For maintenance I sprinkle the yard about once every 7-14 days and water it as above. If I see any activity I once again add the Mole Max to their tunnels, stomp them and water. The area I am dealing with is pretty small so the 10 lb bag has lasted me a while and the actual applying it doesn’t take that long. If you have a lot of property, you probably want a spreader.