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: What are voles? Voles are small (5-7″ long) herbivorous rodents that spend the majority of their lives underground. They look very similar to mice. Image credit: Original by Soebe, edited by Fashionslide – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link. What kind of plant damage do voles do? Voles are voracious pests that eat bulbs, tubers, tree roots, seedlings, and the stems of mature plants. If you’ve noticed underground tunnels just below the soil surface zigzagging through your garden/yard plus disappearing or dead plants, chances are you’ve got voles…
Voles vs. mice vs. shrews vs. moles – what’s the difference? Voles, mice, shrews, and moles are often confused, even though they’re different species. Here’s a helpful comparison chart showing you what each species looks like, plus some of their distinguishing characteristics: