Voles In My Yard

This is why it s important to focus on cleaning up your yard before moving into strategies for eradication.

Voles in my yard.

Voles like dense heavy vegetative cover weeds and meadows because it provides them with protection from predators and provides nesting material. Your first step in treating a vole infestation is remediating the problem at hand. Voles love creating their runways in underbrush and overgrown grassy areas. Protect your hard work by installing a fence.

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. An underground barrier around the perimeter of your yard can do just that. If you focus on removing the voles first others could still be attracted to your yard and start the cycle all over again. 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.

Spraying either substance on your greenery provide a smell and taste voles are sure to find unpleasant. 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. Moles dislike the smells from plants like daffodils marigolds and anything from the allium family. Cut back brush mow weed and create a clean space.

Look around your yard for any areas that might provide shelter and eliminate them. Prevention is very important to keep vole numbers down. Certain kinds of plants in your yard can help deter moles. 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.

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. Keep your yard tidy and grass trimmed short. Owls also prey on voles and unlike coyotes and foxes ought to be welcome in your yard. To deter gophers plant in raised beds.

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 can do significant damage to your landscape so the need for eradication should be taken seriously. Voles are small little mammals that spend part of their lives underneath the ground which makes them hard to detect.