Summer lawn at the start of an attack from a mole

A fairly typical size of one molehill created by the mole in one operation

How the damage will spread if left unchecked

The Mendip Molecatcher starts the work of finding a location to place his traps

Diggin down to the tunnel

The mole run or tunnel is revealed

Deploying a mole trap

Traps marked, job nearly done

Just a small area in one field where moles have created a real health hazard to stock once soil gets into their fodder

On Mendip, as a farm job is tackled where up to 100 traps may be deployed over four days

Just one of 31 moles removed that year in four days

The following year rounding up the stragglers, with a trainee molecatcher guarding the van!

The Mendip Molecatcher's base in The Chew Valley

A customer with the smallest of gardens!