We have one species of mole in the UK Talpa europaea (European / common mole).It lives between 4 to 6 years. The collective noun for a group of moles is a labour, a labour of moles. The males are bucks, the females are does and young are pups. Weighs 110 - 120 grams ( ¼ of a lb) and 150mm long ( 6 inches ) Is not totally blind, but has poor eyesight can only detect light. Its diet is based on earthworms, but it also eats insects and grubs. Breeding takes place around Feb to June. The female mole gives birth to 3 to 6 pups each yea.  At two months, the pups start digging by themselves. They do not hibernate are active throughout the year. Can hear, but uses vibration to find worms or warn it of danger. Highly sensitive to not only vibration, but to changes in air pressure in its runs. A mole can create up to 20 metres of tunnels each day. A mole can shift around 6 kilos (13lbs) of soil every 20 minutes. Equivalent to a human weighing 70 kilos shifting approximately 4 tons of soil in 20 minutes. It has to eat 80% of its body weight per day. Has 44 teeth and will bite you. Moles do not eat the roots of plants but mice that enter the tunnels will. Finds its way round its tunnels by memory.  Moles are excellent swimmers and in times of flood will swim to higher ground. Moles can turn around in tunnels a little wider than their own girth. Mole hills are the result of the mole heaving up soil from new tunnelling. Moves at 4 kilometres per hour ( 2 miles ) Moles are solitary animals. One exception to this rule is during mating season.( climate change, I think they could be at it all year round ) Solitary and VERY territorial, it will fight other moles that trespass onto its territory to the death, hence the Abandonment of Animals Act 1960 section 1 makes it an offence to release an animal into an environment if it does not have a reasonable chance of survival. So if you release your live mole where they are other moles, or where food is not sufficient, the above act is broken. Upturned plastic bottles, childrens plastic windmills and the costly vibrating probes do not work, take a look at the motorways, the constant traffic vibrating pass the mole hills, it don't disturb them. To realease a pest ( mole ) onto someone elses property without permission is ilegal. Live capture can kill via stress and if you forget to check the trap, starvation. Cruel death. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 it is a offence to kill any wild animal using explosives. When a mole is caught or vacates its territory another mole will sense this and will quickly move into the vacated territory and begin clearing the existing tunnels. It is almost inevitable that a new mole will move in even if that is not for some months but it could be a few weeks.