Bell Laboratories Talpirid Mole Bait Worms (20 count) — Reseña

EPA PPLS registry read 2026-08-02: registered product name 'TALPIRID', EPA Reg. 12455-101, bromethalin 0.025%, and no alternate brand names — this is the base registration under its own name, which is unusual on this shelf and makes it the cleanest identification of the three bromethalin worm baits we review. WSU FIELD TEST recorded 2026-08-20. WSU Extension Snohomish County (Dave Pehling, Mole-Hill Gazette 04/07) ran a limited field test of the Talpirid worm-bait format, staking baits in daily-use runs to recover them: "In every instance I could find no sign of feeding, though the baits were consistently walked over, buried, pressed into the tunnel walls or just pushed out of the run." Smearing earthworms on two baits did not change it, and the mole continued to occupy the runs. He also records the manufacturer stating the bait "had been thoroughly tested on our western moles and was proven effective", so the refusal was on the species the claim named. LIMITS, which matter: his own word is limited — one site, one mole, not a trial — the animal is a WESTERN mole (Scapanus), where most of the country has the eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus), and it dates from 2007. Kept in the catalogue with the rating unchanged, because one limited test on a different species is not grounds to overturn a format extension publications otherwise recommend. But the honest expectation is an attempt to verify by probing the run afterwards, not a certainty.