Voles drive gardeners and home owners crazy! Find out how to identify and control these pests.
What Is a Vole?
Voles are small rodents that are also known as field mice or meadow mice due their similarities to mice. Two common species of voles in North America are the prairie vole and the meadow vole. Meadow voles are more widely distributed, but prairie voles are more common in prairie areas. They are very similar, and methods for controlling them are mostly the same.
Voles can cause extensive damage in your backyard garden. Not to be confused with mice, which often don’t cause quite as much damage, voles are happy to eat a wide variety of your plants as well as the bark of some trees. If you’ve noticed your plants being munched, be on the lookout for these cute but pesky creatures.
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Mole and Vole
I have either a mole or a vole in my yard. And first of all WE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXTERMINATE ANY CREATURE THAT ENTERS OUR PROPERTY. It is not right that the liberals who are mentally ill should tell US that we have to tolerate these disease carrying varmints , will it is alright to KILL a unborn human baby just because it is a inconvenience to the woman who doesn't know how not to get pregnant before having SEX.
voles
I discovered a vole like animal in my house. However, it did not have any hair. The shape of the body and the nose were identical to pictures of voles I have seen. The body was black and shinny like one would see on a beetle.
What animal did I capture?
ANSWER "WHAT ANIMAL DID I CAPTURE?"
that is a mole.