Pocket gophers that invade yards are destructive pests. They damage and kill a variety of edible plants when they feed on roots, bulbs and other underground plant tissues. Gophers also gnaw on plastic ...

Spring is here, and sprouting seeds are not the only living things stirring the warm, moist soil of California gardens. The gophers are stirring down there, too. It is now peak breeding season for the ...

As an independent businessman, Steve Salas has but one goal: to build a better gopher trap. That means more of the old-fashioned kind. Although there are now electronic gopher traps on the market, ...

A friend was in a large hardware store checkout line, discussing his purchase to deal with gophers. Another customer stated loudly, "You know what gets rid of gophers?" Everyone around went silent and ...

Ray Festa, UCCE Master Gardener, demonstrates how to place a trapline gopher trap in a gopher hole. Joe Johnston [email protected] Have you ever discovered dirt mounds in the middle of your ...

Several 8-by-10-inch photos of Thomas Wittman's 11-year-old daughter adorn the walls of his office at the UC Santa Cruz farm. The girl is casual and beautiful as she holds a chicken, emerges from a ...

Something is digging in my yard because I have these mounds of dirt showing up everywhere. Do I have moles? — J.D. You definitely have something working underground, but it’s not moles; it’s likely ...

Abstract: We investigated the efficiency of DK-1 and Macabee® pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) traps placed in lateral tunnels in both open and closed tunnel sets in rangeland and nonirrigated alfalfa ...

Q: Help. Gophers have moved into my back yard and are destroying my entire landscape! They have eaten the roots right off my fig tree and several shrubs so that they toppled over. I have tried ...