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What is a pocket gophers favorite food?
Technically, these gophers are called pocket gophers because they have fur-lined pouches on each of their cheeks that they use to carry food. Their favorite foods include roots of trees, grass, seeds, leaves, tender stems, tubers and bulbs.
What is the best bait for pocket gophers?
The best bait for gophers is fresh and succulent portions of vegetable roots and stems, or any part of their agricultural favorite plant, alfalfa. Carrot sticks, celery sticks, apples, and peanut butter are all highly attractive to gophers.
What are pocket gophers good for?
In their native range, however, pocket gophers are beneficial components of ecosystems. They move enormous amounts of soil every year, and therefore help to aerate the soil. Abandoned tunnels provide habitat for a number of other species, and the waste left behind by pocket gophers fertilizes the soil.
Can you keep a pocket gopher as a pet?
So no, you really can’t keep a wild gopher as a pet. Remember, gophers are wild animals first. Keeping a wild gopher as a pet is similar to keeping a wild opossum or wild mole as a pet (which also requires a permit). Many animals are much better off in the wild, especially if that’s their natural habit.
How do you lure a gopher out of its hole?
The best thing to do is act swiftly, using one of the following three methods:
- Bait the gopher into a live trap and release it far from your property.
- Repel the gopher by placing castor oil pellets, peppermint oil, and fabric softener sheets in the burrows nearest your home.
How do you get rid of pocket gophers naturally?
You can place all sorts of natural deterrents around your property to repel gophers. Growing plants with strong smells such as sage, daffodils, iris, thyme, and geranium will repel them, for example, as will placing fish oil, peppermint oil, coffee grounds, or tabasco sauce on the ground near gopher tunnels.
How do I keep pocket gophers away?
Prevention
- Start by building fences around flower beds, gardens, and crops.
- Grow fewer plants that gophers have shown an affinity for in your yard.
- To use a natural method of prevention, you can also apply repellents such as Gopher Scram around your property to discourage Pocket Gophers from invading.