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

I bought Molemax to repel moles from the plants we were putting in our perennial bedsApplication was easy: I used the granules and followed the instructions. It has a strong smell, but it fades quickly and doesn't bother us after a day or so.Results: It prevented the moles from eating any of our plants, and we have since ordered many bags, as Amazonem is the cheapest place to buy it.Pros:Easy to applySafe for pets and kidsCons:Smell is strong at firstWon’t kill moles — just drives them away (which may just be into your neighbor’s yard)Bottom line: If you’re looking for a non-lethal way to deal with moles and voles, Molemax is worth a try. Just follow the directions

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.

Very strong, stinky smell but must be what is needed because it took care of the critters who dug a couple holes under my new driveway. I just hope they got out and found another home. I didn’t want them dead - just wanted them to house hunt somewhere else!

So I bought two bags which is enough to cover my yard twice with how much they recommend spreading. I also combined it with the yard stakes that emit vibrations to detour the moles. Well it’s like the moles are mad that I used those products because I have noticed no reduction in tunnels. In fact I have even more now. Thanks Molemax!! 👍🏻 And congrats! You got my money.

I purchased used as directions over 3 days didn't work voles continue living thier best life. Purchased 2 bag did process over still have voles living a great life in my flower garden and grass.

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.

I spent around $100 on 4 bags. It did not work in spite of watching videos and reading about the best way and time to apply. To be fair, we have an alarming vole infestation. We had seen one and caught it in a trap. We were about to move out of our home at the time and make the property a rental. While moving, it went from 1 seen and caught with NO burrow holes/mounds... to HUNDREDS of voles with countless mounds and tunnels all over our property within a 4 week period. We had moved everything and had not been there for a few weeks. I went back to meet with the tenant 4 weeks after we caught the single vole. We have sandy soil in the mountains with a lot of wild grasses and wildflowers. We have gravel around the house/patio areas and even those areas were devastated in spite of the lack of plants growing there.After 2 applications of 2 bags, 1 week apart (on damp soil w some light rain between and after treatments we saw no improvement. We had used 20+ smoke bombs manufactured just for that purpose. He had also sprayed a liquid version of vole repellent last fall. My husband also attached a hose to the exhaust of his old plow truck and ran that into the tunnels to drive them away (a video he saw online gave him that idea). None of the efforts worked.Due to the devastation of our yard from the voles and danger of stepping in a hole and twisting an ankle or worse...we hired someone to regrade the sections of our yard that could be reached with a small grader and flatten it out. Away from the house, in a rocky area that cannot be graded due to enormous stones/pitch, etc. (mountains) countless voles were seen running out of the tunnels while the ground was being graded.Unfortunately, the only thing that is working for us is regrading and compacting the ground in any areas we can reach with heavy equipment on the property. We cannot reach all areas, so I'm certain this will be a continual, and costly process.We are not using poison since the wild animals such as fox, etc. eat voles and we don't want to poison wildlife or pets.If anyone has a good solution not listed above, please let me know! I am assuming that if you are reading this, you have voles. Good luck and try to catch them as early as possible because they reproduce quickly and in large numbers.