Title: Voles and Mice
Headings: Voles and Mice
Voles and Mice
Symptoms and Diagnosis
Integrated Pest Management Strategies
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Content: Voles prefer the bark of young fruit trees as well as tender stems, foliage, flowers, seeds and fruits of grasses, sedges and many other herbaceous plants. When times are tough and their favorite foods are scarce, voles will eat crayfish, snails, insects and even other mice as well as the inner barks of vines, shrubs and trees. A vole will consume its own weight in plants every 24 hours. They say that a population of 15 voles per acre can grow to 250 in four years. Voles will store food, as much as two gallons of plant materials in underground hollows near their nests as well as hollow stumps and similar places. Moles often are accused of the plant damage caused by voles. Moles live almost entirely underground and are carnivores, not herbivores. A mole’s diet consists of small animal life, especially grubs and earthworms—no plants. They only chew roots to clear the way for their tunnels. Symptoms and Diagnosis
Voles and rabbits can cause similar damage.