What is the best way to kill gophers? Do they come out at night?

http://www.garden-counselor-lawn-care.com/how-get-rid-gophers.html

Gophers are diurnal, in other words they come out to feed during the day and sleep in their burrows at night.

I don't have trouble anymore with gophers or moles/voles. Our Chow-chow takes care of them for us. She does not like uninvited critters in her yard.

My Lhasa also hunts these creatures, only she likes to bring them into the house to show me her catch! Sometimes their not dead yet either, actually very much still alive and scurrying across my floor trying to dig under it! Have to tell my girl (little dog) to take it back outside and kill it! Thank goodness she understands what I tell her to do! LOL moles, mice, you name it she catches it! Shell sit by a mole hill for hours just waiting and she gets them when they come up! If you don’t have a dog mole hunter, you’ll have to get traps or use a repellen. The repellent does wor, but has to be reapplied every 3 months or anytime it rains. which can get expensive to keep them off your property! The old fashion spring mole traps work great usually. Just difficult to set and don’t get your fingers in the wrong spot or you likely will get a broken finger! Be careful! Make sure you have a active tunnel by moving the dirt away from the mound and if it gets built back up you got a active tunnel! You’ll need to dig out the hole enough that the trap will fit in the tunnel where the mole will trigger the trap. Then cover it up with loose dirt and wait! I have a dozen traps and set them up everywhere I see a active tunnel. Sometimes you get them and sometimes you don’t! Just don’t give up!

You don't have to kill them, just make your property undesirable. Call animal control in your town, they will set a trap, and when you see it. trapped call them.

You can also sprinkle mothballs around to keep them away- they hate mothballs- good luck :)

Do you want to kill them or send them packing someplace else? Most DIY answers will send them packing. To kill them use a gopher trap.

Good luck, they are a pain. The best gopher remedy truly was my neighbors dog. He would find a hole jump on it twice gopher would come out of hole and dog would grab it. Lol!

If you or if you know anyone who has snakes, keep the skin when they shed and place a good long piece in each in hole. They won't be back. Tried and true!

Hi there, Maybe this will help:

https://www.yourgreenpal.com/blog/the-8-best-home-remedies-to-get-rid-of-moles-and-gophers

Good luck

My entire block had them. This is what I used and it worked.

Just put a rock over the entry point, so that some neighbors’ dog doesn’t try to access it.