Eastern mole records in Indiana come from moist, workable soils in lawns, fields, and deciduous woods, with broad habitat available from Hoosier National Forest to Muscatatuck and the Lake Michigan plain. May and June lead the reports, when fresh tunnels and occasional above-ground animals are more conspicuous in warming soil.
The 166 iNaturalist records are detections, not a measure of mole abundance. Most moles remain underground and are reported through chance encounters or visible earthworks near people, so low record coverage in an Indiana county does not imply few moles there.
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