Voles Digging Holes In Yard

By mixing gravel into some of the dirt in your lawn voles will likely turn around and head toward softer soil that is more conducive to digging.

Voles digging holes in yard. This guide helps diagnose what s digging tunneling feeding and otherwise disturbing turf grasses. Signs of voles in your garden may include runways on the surface of the ground on in your lawn. Some are commonly called meadow mice or pine mice. Birds make holes in sod as they search for food and earthworms make small little holes the size of pencils to aerate the soil and provide air to their tunnels.

Mole holes are covered by a hill of earth while a vole hole is not. Evidence of a vole problem is easy to see but spotting these shy nocturnal pests is rare. The only visible evidence of a vole burrow is the neat exit holes an inch or two across. In fact a vole might look like a mouse at first glance.

The runways may be about one to two inches wide. Eliminate entryways even though you re more likely to see other rodents like mice and rats inside your home voles are the same size and just as likely to make their way there. The animals dig dime sized entrances to their burrows around the roots of plants. And they have big feet used in digging.

Preventing vole lawn damage. Moles are all nose and mouth. Vole holes may be even as small as a dime. Holes are another visible sign of vole activity.

Use the links above the graphic to find more information about many of the offenders and be sure to check out our problem wildlife page for more details on other wildlife conflicts around homes and farms. Voles are small little mammals that spend part of their lives underneath the ground which makes them hard to detect. See our mole page. Voles have small rounded ears that are often hidden by their fur small eyes and short tails.

Pesky voles and shrews create small holes with openings of about 1 to 1 1 2 inches while squirrels and chipmunks leave behind 2 inch holes. The grass immediately surrounding the hole will be very short. Vole holes can be right out in the open or cleverly hidden under foliage or debris in the garden. In contrast moles are not rodents.

A vole s burrow can be identified by holes found in lawns or around the base of trees. Voles myodes are small stocky rodents similar to field mice. Voles look like mice. Holes throughout the lawn are usually sourced to small rodents like voles or moles or insects.