First, if you have holes in your yard, don’t blame moles. “Moles do not make holes in the ground,” says Roger Dickens, a wildlife technical services manager with Ehrlich Pest Control.

We show you the best ways to get rid of moles once and for all so you can enjoy a pest-free yard. Damage caused by moles is quite possibly the most frustrating problem in the garden.

Typically, moles are insectivores and create cone-shaped mounds about two inches in diameter. While voles eat plants and don’t usually create mounds, making holes around one to two-inches wide.

For the past two winters, some kind of burrowing mouse/mole/vole makes tunnels under the snow and feasts on my phlox. They live in holes in the ground. They chew the plants down to nothing but a stub.

This is the amusing moment a released mole quickly burrowed into the soil. Mr Wang and his friends rescued the mammal and took it to farmland in Yunnan, China, on August 24. Footage shows the animal ...

Moles make raised tunnels, especially in lawns, but they don't eat plants. Voles make small holes in the ground and eat lots of plants. And really big holes that plants "disappear down" ...

Voles do not plug their holes, and many open holes are evident in a small patch of ground. Gophers, moles and voles are beneficial to soil ecology.