Gophers can cause significant damage beneath the surface long before the problem is obvious. These burrowing rodents spend much of their lives underground, creating extensive tunnel systems while feeding on roots, bulbs, plants, and other vegetation.
At Atta Pest Pest Control, our pocket gopher control service is designed to locate active gopher activity and remove the animals responsible for the damage. We use mechanical gopher traps placed directly inside active tunnels to capture and remove pocket gophers.
Residential Property Damage
Pocket gophers can quickly turn a healthy landscape into a recurring maintenance problem. Their underground activity may cause:
- Raised soil and unsightly gopher mounds throughout lawns and landscaped areas
- Damage to lawns and turf as tunnels develop beneath the surface
- Root damage to trees, shrubs, flowers, and ornamental plants
- Wilting or dying vegetation when roots are severed or disturbed
- Damage to irrigation systems when underground tunnels interfere with or damage irrigation components
- Uneven or unstable soil caused by extensive underground tunneling
- Recurring landscape damage when gophers continue to reproduce and establish new tunnel systems
Gopher activity can be particularly frustrating because simply repairing the visible mound does not address the animal or its underground tunnel system.
Commercial Property Damage
For commercial properties, gopher activity can create both an appearance and maintenance concern. Properties that may experience problems include office complexes, apartment communities, shopping centers, HOAs, schools, parks, golf-course landscapes, and other maintained properties.
Potential problems include:
- Damage to large landscaped areas and turf
- Unsightly mounds in highly visible areas
- Destruction of ornamental plants and vegetation
- Root damage to established landscaping
- Disruption of irrigation systems
- Increased landscape maintenance and repair costs
- Recurring damage when active gophers remain underground
- An unmaintained appearance that can negatively affect curb appeal
Our Gopher Control Approach
Atta Pest Pest Control uses a targeted trapping approach.
Our technicians inspect the property for signs of active pocket gopher activity and identify areas where active tunnels are present. Mechanical gopher traps are then strategically placed inside the active tunnels to capture the gophers.
Once captured, the gophers are removed from the property, and the affected areas can then be addressed by the property owner or landscaping professional.
This approach focuses directly on the source of the visible damage rather than simply treating the mounds themselves.
Signs You May Have Pocket Gophers
Look for:
• Fresh crescent- or fan-shaped soil mounds
• New mounds appearing repeatedly
• Plants suddenly wilting or disappearing
• Damaged or severed plant roots
• Raised soil or surface disturbances
• Repeated landscape damage in the same area
Because gophers spend most of their time underground, fresh mounds and other surface evidence can be important indicators of active activity.
Southern California Gopher Control
Pocket gophers are well adapted to Southern California’s landscapes and can become a persistent problem in residential and commercial properties throughout the region. Properties with lawns, landscaped beds, gardens, trees, and irrigated vegetation can provide attractive habitat and food sources.
Don’t let underground activity continue destroying your landscape.
Atta Pest Pest Control provides professional pocket gopher trapping and removal services for residential and commercial properties.
Target the gopher. Protect your landscape.
