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Controlling Voles in Your Lawn
Controlling Voles
They are a bit harder to eliminate as the castor oil that bothers moles doesnt seem to affect them.
You might try a sonic torpedo. This is a tubular battery-operated apparatus that vibrates away and when inserted into the ground, sets up a vibration that apparently they do not like. There are also sonic devices that are advertised as being effective against these creatures. Plug them in and rodents will leave when the appropriate frequency is created.
Cats work really well. More than one cat owner has written with tales of how much dear kitty loves to bring home presents.
Some gardeners carefully slice open the tunnels and insert a waterproof poison block for mice and rats. This works reasonably well the poison is below the ground where pets and children cant get to it and it will last until the pest eats it. Youll kill this pest because they do eat the grain-based poison blocks. This works equally well for moles and voles although it is most often the mole tunnels that gardeners discover.
Mothballs do not work (the critter simply doesnt get moths) and chewing gum also doesnt work (except that vole-dentists get more work repairing the cavities from all that gum sugar).
Mole or Vole?
If you have trouble remembering which is which moles and voles...
M = meat eater and these are Moles
V= vegetation eater and these are Voles
These pests hide in long grass (cut it) and piles of old boards (remove them) and other piles of vegetation (shred them and compost them) and any other place that a mouse would hide. If you remove as many of these hiding places as possible, youll reduce the level of damage in the lawn. But unfortunately, if you live next to a hay-field or park, youll always have them.
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