Voles

The non-poor Vole gets any recognition. Even those who are not lovers know landscaping moles. But most people go through life without ever so much as heard about these pests from look like, let alone control. To make things more confusing, these parasites are sometimes referred to as "Meadow mice" or "field mice". But when it turns out their damage in lawn or garden around your House, you learn quickly that this is no problem of pest control "Mickey Mouse".

Voles construct tunnels well defined, visible, or "passerelle" at or near the surface, about two inches wide. Result Vole tracks from voles eat the grass blades, as well as the constant traffic of numerous small foot beating over the same path. And if any lawn and garden pests can literally "beat a path through the grass due to their sheer numbers, the voles. Rabbits have nothing on this prolific rodent!

Because the voles are not the only animal parasites responsible for tracks in lawn and garden areas, they are often confused with these other parasites that you want to delete – namely, moles. Because they are rarely seen both moles and voles, it makes more sense based on identification signs leave behind, rather than on how to watch the animals. After all, you never can come face to face with these enemies peeps!

Moles produce two types of tracks in your garden. A track runs just below the surface. These are fueling the tunnel and appear as raised ridges running across your lawn. The second type of track runs deeper and moles unite power tunnel in a network. Is the soil excavated from the tunnel that homeowners on their lawns, piled up in mounds that resemble shallow volcanoes. These mounds are a dead giveaway that the problem is not voles, but moles. Voles do not leave any mounds at all.

Perhaps you made a positive identification of the perpetrator: thou hast voles. Or maybe you do voles on your landscape, but you want to find a way to keep it that way. Any category your landscape falls below, we discuss the next step in the Vole control on page 2.