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Best Mole Killer: Why Most Mole Poisons Cannot Work
Moles are not rodents, so the grain baits sold for them cannot poison them — and grub control will not remove them either. What extension services do recommend.
Solar Ultrasonic and Vibration Repeller Stakes
Generic Solar Ultrasonic Burrowing Animal Repeller Stakes (4-pack) Review
★☆☆☆☆ 1/5
our editor rating how we score3.8/5 from 121 shoppers at Amazon — their number, not ours.
$34–$44
Typical price · 4 stakes, each claiming a radius the makers state and no controlled test supports
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This is the one category where extension services agree without hedging, and the wording is not gentle.
Our Verdict
Listed so the answer is documented, and rated one star because the evidence is one-sided. WSU Extension states plainly: 'In controlled tests, none of the electronic repellers have been effective.' Purdue groups ultrasonic devices with pinwheels, mothballs, human hair, razor blades and chewing gum and concludes 'the reality is that these just do not work.' NC State's summary of the whole genre is the sentence worth remembering — 'There are no short cuts or magic wands when controlling moles.' The mechanism claim does not survive contact with the animal either: a mole tunnels up to a hundred feet a day through soil full of vibration, and a stake buzzing a few times a minute is not a meaningful signal to it. Save the money and spend it on a trap. We are not going to rate a product higher than the research does because it sells well.
✅ Pros
- No poison, no trap, nothing to injure a pet or child
- Solar powered, so there is no battery cost
- Harmless to the animal and to non-target wildlife
⚠️ Cons
- WSU: in controlled tests, no electronic repeller has been effective
- Purdue groups ultrasonic devices with mothballs and chewing gum — 'these just do not work'
- The premise is implausible for an animal that tunnels through vibrating soil all day
- Money that would buy a trap that does work
- Low review count relative to the category, so even the crowd signal is thin
Product type
Solar Ultrasonic and Vibration Repeller Stakes
Active ingredient
None — a solar-charged vibrating and ultrasonic stake
Price range
$34–$44
Coverage
4 stakes, each claiming a radius the makers state and no controlled test supports
Best for
Nothing we can honestly recommend it for
our editor rating
1 out of 5
Where our facts come from
Correctly carries no EPA registration
Adjuvants, dyes, devices and minimum-risk products are not registered pesticides, so an empty registration number here is right rather than missing.
What we found when we read it
An ultrasonic stake is a DEVICE under FIFRA, not a registered pesticide, so it has no EPA registration number and no EPA-approved label. Worth stating plainly on this product in particular, because the absence of a registration also means no efficacy claim on it has been through EPA review — which is consistent with what the extension literature says about ultrasonic repellents generally.
Where this page and the container disagree, the container wins — the label is the legal authority on rates and restrictions. How to read one yourself.
Where This Product Matters
Matched against each state's actual disease, weed and pest pressure.
Arizona
Arizona hub →⚖️ Do not buy this for an Arizona yard. University of Arizona Cooperative Extension states it plainly: “We do not have moles in Arizona.” Soil being pushed up here is almost certainly a pocket gopher — a rodent that does eat plant material and therefore CAN be baited, which is the opposite of a mole. Identify by mound shape: a gopher approaches the surface at an angle so its mound is a fan or tear drop with the plug off to one side; a mole pushes soil straight up, so its mound is round and conical.
Colorado
Colorado hub →⚖️ Almost certainly the wrong animal here. CSU Extension fact sheet 6.521 records moles as “rarely found in Colorado, and only on the eastern plains” — the Lower South Platte counties (Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Morgan, Washington, Yuma) plus Baca in the south-east. Denver, the Front Range and the Western Slope are all outside mole range, where CSU points instead at voles, pocket gophers, prairie dogs or Wyoming ground squirrels.
Iowa
Iowa hub →Moles along field edges
Oregon
Oregon hub →Moles (heavy in soft, damp valley soil)
Common questions
Common Questions
How much does Generic Solar Ultrasonic Burrowing Animal Repeller Stakes (4-pack) cost?
Generic Solar Ultrasonic Burrowing Animal Repeller Stakes (4-pack) typically runs $34–$44, covering 4 stakes, each claiming a radius the makers state and no controlled test supports.
What does Generic Solar Ultrasonic Burrowing Animal Repeller Stakes (4-pack) treat?
Generic Solar Ultrasonic Burrowing Animal Repeller Stakes (4-pack) targets Moles.
What is the active ingredient in Generic Solar Ultrasonic Burrowing Animal Repeller Stakes (4-pack)?
None — a solar-charged vibrating and ultrasonic stake.
What is the biggest downside of Generic Solar Ultrasonic Burrowing Animal Repeller Stakes (4-pack)?
WSU: in controlled tests, no electronic repeller has been effective
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