Moles have exploded on the central coast in the last two years, and wherever I wander, I see their familiar sign—the ground covered with rumpled-up surface runs and those classic molehills we are admonished not to make mountains out of. What is going on? Why are they proliferating in such an unprecedented pulse? The answers take us right into their biological niche and amazing morphological adaptations.
The primary stimulus for moles’ recent success is the…