What is Voles? I have moles—is a vole a cousin?
We had a young orange cat who took out the whole population in short order. Find a young cat from good farm cat stock, orange ones are best, grey tabbies second, and let them have at it.
Get an outdoor cat. Works every time.
Get an owl.
My rat terrier takes care of things like this.
Go out to the back yard and in your loudest voice sing “Vole -la -re! Oh! Oh!”
Powders are ineffective; get a good mouser cat.
I have been at war with some voles/moles for a couple years. I have had some success trapping them. The traps are small spring traps that you place in active tunnels. I can try to find you link to see the traps. Just ask if you want me to.
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Had voles tunneling in the garden. At the time, the guy at the hardware store said to use pieces of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum placed near the tunnel openings. Said the voles would basically gum up their mouths with the chewing gum. Figured for under $1 I’d give it a try. It was also safe around kids and pets, which was nice. I didn’t think it would work, but I swear the voles were gone in short order.
Here is a YouTube video by someone who also said it worked...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCdH2ERagXY
My cats always caught voles like crazy, even the old lazy ones. If you don’t want a nice kitty, you can get yourself a passel of possums, a fine mole kingsnake, and a few owls. And foxes. Foxes are cool.
You can also plant borders of monkey grass. The voles will munch on it in preference to other things, and that stuff is unkillable.
https://www.havahart.com/how-to-repel-voles
One interesting trait about voles is their diet. Some species live almost entirely on truffles.
Gophers, Moles or Voles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTEzqB5wjcE
I use gas. These look like 1/4 sticks of TNT that send a stinky, suplhur smeilling gas down the hole and thru the tunnels. Does it kill them? Probably not. But it does drive them to my neighbor’s yard (heh, heh, heh...)
Moles eat worms and grubs. When the lawn or garden is moist, they operate near the surface where their food is and the opposite in the dry parts of summer. So I spray the lawn for grubs and worms, driving the moles deeper and making less damage.
There is an exterminator in my town that has Rat and Russell terriers who will turn them loose in your yard or barn. I’m told it is very effective but brutal to watch.
It’s not who voles, it’s who counts the voles!
How about A-Voles. Got anything to get rid of them?
Adopt a female cat and don’t get her spayed. When she has kittens, she will need to generate milk to feed them so her appetite will be voracious, and she’ll hunt down voles and other small critters to supplement what you feed her.
Search YouTube for jugging for moles/gophers.
Voles moved into my wife’s garden this past summer.
MAN ... what a PITA they are.
I picked off a couple with my Ruger .22 MKII pistol, but you have to sit there for what seems like hours till they pop out of their hole ... and if you don’t get them emerging from their hole, forget-a-bout-it they are fast.
Yes like many others said ... get a good cat or Terrier.