Eastern mole records in Michigan cluster in the southern Lower Peninsula’s farmland and turf, with Huron-Manistee National Forests and Waterloo State Recreation Area among the named sites. As a fossorial species that spends nearly its whole life underground, its record map is really a map of who noticed a molehill, not where the mole traveled.
Reports rise from April through July, when spring digging pushes up fresh mounds that are easy to spot on lawns and fields. With 405 GBIF records against 140 from iNaturalist, most documentation likely comes from museum specimens and pest-control encounters rather than photographs; NatureServe ranks the species S5, Secure, statewide.
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