Your first step in treating a vole infestation is remediating the problem at hand.
Voles holes in my yard with no mounds.
Voles may travel through mole tunnels but also dig their own burrows.
Vole holes can be right out in the open or cleverly hidden under foliage or debris in the garden.
Alice duncan the voles come up from their hole in the ground and the bucket makes a dome over the hole and set traps.
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.
Some are commonly called meadow mice or pine mice.
So no doors in the bucket access is via the hole in the ground.
Make your yard inhospitable to voles.
Prevention is very important to keep vole numbers down.
If you focus on removing the voles first others could still be attracted to your yard and start the cycle all over again.
Even if you don t see any living creatures in your yard you will probably see evidence of their.
If you are very observant you may see small holes as if something was poked into the ground but no mounds or loose soil.
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.
Holes in the ground with no mounds.
Voles look like mice.
Vole holes may be even as small as a dime.
Part of gardening involves dealing with the local wildlife.
Voles leave no mounds behind.
This is why it s important to focus on cleaning up your yard before moving into strategies for eradication.
If the soil in your yard has a healthy population of earthworms you may find 1 inch high piles of small granular pellets of soil.