Cobb County, Georgia
Cobb County sits on heavy red clay over weathered granite, and clay holds moisture long after the rain stops. That keeps earthworms feeding close to the surface for most of the year, which is exactly why East Cobb and Marietta lawns ridge up so fast.
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Live local conditions · Cobb County
Soil at 6cm is 81°F. That is warm enough to drive worms down, and the moles go with them. Surface ridging usually falls off, but the deep runs stay open and keep severing roots under the hottest part of the year — which is when a lawn can least afford it.
Quiet surface does not mean the mole left. It means it is feeding deeper than you can see. The runs under your lawn are still open, and they still open back up the moment conditions turn.
Summer heat
Dry, hot surface soil drives earthworms down, and the moles follow them. Surface ridging often goes quiet in midsummer, which homeowners routinely read as the moles leaving. They have not left. They are working deeper, and the deep runs are still cutting roots.
What that means for trapping: Summer trapping works, it just requires reading deep runs rather than fresh surface ridges. An irrigated lawn stays productive all summer and holds moles that the rest of the neighbourhood does not.
Towns we cover
Outside these towns but still inside Cobb County? Call us — if it is in the county, we cover it.
Before you spend another season on it
It is the most commonly sold mole treatment in north Georgia, and for most yards it makes the damage worse rather than better.
Read why →Castor oil products can push a mole off one part of a yard for a while. They cannot remove it, and that difference is the whole ballgame.
Read why →Bait looks like the obvious answer. Its results are the most inconsistent of any mole product sold, and the reason is simple once you know how a mole feeds.
Read why →Some mole remedies are merely ineffective. These ones have no credible mechanism at all, and a few of them will damage your lawn on the way to not working.
Read why →Every other method on this site tries to persuade a mole to go somewhere else. Trapping removes it. That is the entire difference, and it is why it is the only approach worth guaranteeing.
Read why →Most of the ridges in a mole-damaged lawn are dead ground the animal will never use again. Knowing which are live is the difference between trapping and waiting.
Read why →Straight answers
Our trapping starts at $250. The final price depends on the size of the property and how many separate run systems are working the yard, which is what the free no-obligation visit determines. You get a firm number before any work begins.
Usually far fewer than people expect. Eastern moles are largely solitary and territorial, and a single animal can ridge up a startling amount of lawn. A yard that looks like it holds a dozen moles very often holds one or two.
No, and it frequently makes the damage worse. Earthworms make up the bulk of an eastern mole's diet, so killing grubs leaves its actual food supply intact while increasing the ground it has to cover to feed itself — which means more tunnelling through your lawn.
They can push a mole off a treated section of lawn temporarily. They do not remove the animal, the effect washes out with Georgia rainfall, and the mole returns to tunnels that were never filled in. You are renting a result that expires.
On most properties it is a matter of days rather than a season. We set into live runs, return to check and adjust, and keep working the yard until the activity stops.
We keep working the property until the trapping is done and the activity has stopped — that is what the price covers, however many visits it takes.
Usually not. Surface ridging comes and goes with soil temperature and moisture — when the ground gets hot and dry or cold, earthworms move deeper and the moles follow them down out of sight. The runs stay open and the activity returns when conditions turn.
We work in Cobb County, Cherokee County, Bartow County only. Keeping the area tight is deliberate: soil varies a lot across north Georgia and knowing the ground is most of reading a yard correctly.
Trapping starts at $250 and it is guaranteed: we keep working the property until the trapping is done and the activity has stopped — that is what the price covers, however many visits it takes.
Serving Cobb, Cherokee, Bartow counties only — so we know the ground.