Title: How to prevent or stop voles from eating your plants - Tyrant Farms
Headings: How to prevent or stop voles from eating your plants
How to prevent or stop voles from eating your plants
Trying to figure out how to prevent or stop voles from eating the plants in your garden? Read on to learn how!
What are voles?
What kind of plant damage do voles do?
Voles vs. mice vs. shrews vs. moles – what’s the difference?
Breeding: how many new voles can a vole pair create in a year?
How to prevent or stop voles from eating your plants
Please don’t use poison to kill voles
What about electronic vole repellers and deterrents?
Vole prevention in raised garden beds
Here’s how:
How to protect your fruit trees from voles
How to protect your bulb, tubers, and other transplants from voles
No more!
How to use Vole King mesh baskets
Why do we prefer Vole King baskets versus hardware cloth?
Other vole control methods
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Content: A quick comparison chart showing you the difference between shrews, voles, mice, and moles. Chart created by Tyrant Farms. Additional credit: 1) shrew image by Eliza Holcombe, 2) vole image by Soebe, edited by Fashionslide – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link, 3) mouse image by George Shuklin ( talk) – Own work, CC BY-SA 1.0, Link, 4) mole image by Kenneth Catania, Vanderbilt University, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link. If you’re trying to stop a particular pest species from causing damage, it’s important that you know what it is so you can use the appropriate prevention or eradication method. For instance, voles and moles both create tunnels in your yard or garden. However, voles are herbivores whereas moles are carnivores (eating slugs, grubs, insects, spiders, etc). If you’re trying to get a mole (carnivore) out of your yard/garden using a trap baited with peanut butter, you’re not going to have much luck because: a) they rarely come to the soil surface, and b) peanut butter isn’t appetizing to them. Breeding: