Voles In My Yard

Your first step in treating a vole infestation is remediating the problem at hand.

Voles in my yard. Moles dislike the smells from plants like daffodils marigolds and anything from the allium family. Owls also prey on voles and unlike coyotes and foxes ought to be welcome in your yard. Spraying either substance on your greenery provide a smell and taste voles are sure to find unpleasant. Keep your yard tidy and grass trimmed short.

Voles can be removed humanely from a yard by using havahart live traps exterminated by using mouse traps or poisons frustrated by garden fencing or driven away with vole repellents. If you already have voles in your yard this type of barrier can keep them out of your flower gardens. Make your yard inhospitable to voles. Voles are small little mammals that spend part of their lives underneath the ground which makes them hard to detect.

Get rid of tall weeds and grass that provide cover and be sure to dispose of grass and leaves after you mow or weed your yard. Voles like dense heavy vegetative cover weeds and meadows because it provides them with protection from predators and provides nesting material. Certain kinds of plants in your yard can help deter moles. An underground barrier around the perimeter of your yard can do just that.

Diagnosing holes in the yard 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. Prevention is very important to keep vole numbers down. Protect your plants by fencing the area with a half inch of mesh hardware cloth at least 12 inches above the ground and buried 6 to 10 inches deep suggests the old farmer s. While voles are good at eating your crops and damaging your lawn they re not winning any awards for climbing.

If you focus on removing the voles first others could still be attracted to your yard and start the cycle all over again. Look around your yard for any areas that might provide shelter and eliminate them. This is why it s important to focus on cleaning up your yard before moving into strategies for eradication. Voles love creating their runways in underbrush and overgrown grassy areas.

Even though these little critters only grow to be 5 7 inches long they can cause massive destruction to your yard and garden so figuring out how to deter voles is paramount. Voles can do significant damage to your landscape so the need for eradication should be taken seriously. To deter gophers plant in raised beds. Bury 1 4 inch hardware cloth in an 18 inch trench and tilt the bottom 4 inches at a 90 degree angle away from the yard to discourage animals from tunneling underneath it.