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3 Reasons Gophers Get Into Bay Area Yards

You’ve spent years cultivating your backyard paradise. It’s finally just the way you’ve always envisioned it. You can’t wait to spend time enjoying the lovely space that you’ve put so much hard work into. But what if it all gets ruined by cute, furry, and quite destructive gophers? The following are three reasons gophers get into San Francisco yards and what

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What Does Mole Damage Look Like?

It is difficult to say exactly what mole damage looks like because the damage caused by moles can sometimes be mistaken for damage caused by other lawn pests such as voles, rats, gophers, and ground squirrels. If you see patches of dead grass in your yard, that is a good sign that you have a mole problem but that dead

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Hillsborough, CA Gopher Removal And Mole Removal

We here at Smith’s Pest Management, “your Bay area gopher guys”, get a lot of calls for gophers an moles infestation in and around Hillsborough, California. This quintessential Peninsula community is a great example of what prime gopher and mole habitat looks like…yet it has fine landscapes and gardens sprinkled throughout. Of course, folks can’t tolerate burrowing pests in the garden so

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Don’t Use Plain Chicken Wire For Raised Beds, Use Gopher Wire

Chicken wire can rust away in less then 3 years leaving you unprotected. Gophers will get into your raised beds as soon as they find the chicken wire has rusted away. Use stainless steel or double galvanized “gopher wire” which is made specifically to last in underground applications like lining raised beds, making gopher baskets, etc. I saw this article on the

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