Mole (Talpa europea)belongs to a groupof animals which can be useful, contributory soilaeration by moving through soil, decomposition process and can affect water regime. However,with regard to theway of life andits often presence in the gardens, seedbeds, greenhouses, sport courts and many other places, it represents a pest.
In our country it can be found in almost every plain and hilly regions. It lives exclusively underground, digging whole hallway system. On some places, it can dig soil on the surface creatingmounds, indicating thatthere is amolehill. Its shelters could be found on the ground near marsh or pond, even rivers, because their tendency towards water.
Molemainlyfood sources are insects,earthworms, field mice, frogs, but also animalwaste andcorpses. It does not eat plant food, but when its moving, it can cut a plant and destroy one or more. Mole can always eat more food. Daily it consumes more food than its own weight. Mole cannot survive without food for more than 12 hours. It is always searching for food, with a help of developed smelland hearing sense.
