Lemme get this straight....you saw "pulsating" mounds the size of large baseball caps in your yard and didn't take a stick to 'em?! LOL! If those are moles you can fergit chasin' 'em away - I'd run like he!! for my shotgun ;-)

Sounds like aliens or giant carnivorous worms! Anybody seen the Tremors movies?

Those darn moles ate my red banana I got at the fall swap! I'd sure be interested in knowing how to get rid of them my self!
I was watering Thursday, and noticed my banana looked awfully short, and on closer inspection, discovered a hole beneath it and all that was left was a small piece of stem and a couple of leaves!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaa...... and it was already beginning to grow. Darn moles #^%@^%$@&@
Jan

Moles don't eat plants. Voles do as do gophers or ground hogs. Daphne's description sounds like mole activity to me!

Moles really shouldn't be considered a problem for the most part. Get out there and stomp those 'mole hills' down every time you see one pop up. Keep an eye out for plant damage, which would indicate that you have something else other than moles.

Remember, moles do NOT eat plants! For most homeowners, their presence is merely an affront to aesthetics. Horrors!!! If your organic mole chaser contains Castor oil, I've heard that it is affective against gophers, too, but can't speak to that personally.

So then, it was voles that ate my banana plant? Guess I better be on the look out for a barn cat or two to stay outside and keep the vole population down, huh? I used to have one, but she dissapeared. She did seem to catch quite a few voles. Used to find dead ones on the porch where she left them as gifts, I guess. :)
Jan

Voles or gophers or ground hogs. A gopher or groundhog will actually pull plants right into the hole with them, right before your eyes....ziiiip, poof!

Maybe you've got a 'salamander'.

Here is a link that might be useful: Salamander

You know Rhizo1, my banana was pulled down into the hole, but I don't think we have ground hogs here. I've lived in this area all my life, and hunted with my dad when I was a kid, and have never seen a ground hog around here. Not even a dead one on the highway! I feel certain that a vole was probably what ate the roots off my banana plant. Still think I might get me a good mouser and see if the vole population goes down around here! :)
Jan

Jan,
I spent my first 27 years in Lee Co., AL. Never saw a groundhog there til I was at least 17 - and then only a couple of 'em - both residing in a big ol' kudzu patch, out north of Auburn.
They're there , just not as plentiful as they seem to be up here in KY & TN.

I'm betting on the gopher.

I see groundhogs most every day on Redstone Arsenal. They tend to stay close to creeks.

Hi, I have moles voles and I think gophers, lots of whatever those little minichipmunk things are, I mean the yard is infested. I filled their holes this year with poison peanuts from Home Depot. It didn't get rid of them but cut down on the plant damage. They actually only killed one butterfly bush and uprooted a few annuals as opposed to dozens of things in years past. Some people don't like using these in their yard but so far I've found nothing better. I've heard of Juicy Fruit but I'd rot my teeth for sure trying to fill the holes b/c there are just so many. My bird dogs spend all day chasing after them but they're not that good, they've only caught 1 or 2. I'd love to hear anyone else's ideas on getting rid of these.