Bait can be applied by hand, in underground bait stations, or with a gopher probe. The bait is manufactured with wheat and the anticoagulant diphacinone. After initial treatment, if fresh mounds appear after 2 -3 weeks, repeat treatment. Before use, please read the entire label and follow all use directions and use precautions.
Gopher Characteristics:
- 4 – 12 inches in length
- Yellowish-brown to black fur on top and the underside is often a lighter shade to almost white in color
- Large front claws and large incisors, both used for digging
- Short tail and small, nearly naked ears
- Often noticed by their fan-shaped soil mounds that lead to the burrow system, generally 4 to 18 inches below ground – usually 3 inches in diameter but can vary with the size of the gopher
- Eats roots, plants and other vegetation they encounter while digging or that they pull into their tunnel from below -alfalfa is one of the most nutritious foods for pocket gophers.
- Gophers are active throughout the day
- Reproduction begins the Spring after birth, 1 month gestation period with litters of 2 – 6
- Typically one litter per year, occasionally two have been noted in the South
