Important Details About Voles
Voles, also known as meadow mice or field mice, damage trees and lawns due to their chewing, tunneling, and digging habits. Voles may feed on or contaminate food, grains, and animal feed. Voles can spread germs to other animals and humans (e.g., salmonella). If you think you have a vole problem, talk to a pest management professional to control vole populations.
Vole runways commonly appear when the snow melts. If left unmanaged, prairie voles can cause extensive damage to young trees, garden beds, garden plants, and lawns. Prevent vole damage on your property. Birch Fumigators can remove voles and prevent voles.
What Do Voles Look Like?
Voles are small animals with bulky bodies, bushy tails, and round heads with tiny eyes. They are most commonly seen in woodlands, fields, prairies, or cultivated areas with thick ground cover such as farms. Voles primarily consume grass shoots, roots, and leaves from plants.
There are many different types of voles, including the prairie vole or meadow vole. Voles have tiny ears and eyes, as well as short tails; these characteristics distinguish the vole species from house mice or deer mice. They’re active during the day and night all year round. They cut grass runways and maintain them short. These runways lead to a variety of burrow entrances between 1-1/2 and 2 inches in diameter.
How To Get Rid Of Voles?
Birch Fumigators offers vole pest control services and is qualified to utilize a range of traps and techniques. We have significant expertise in ridding the home of voles quickly and safely. Birch Fumigators is one of the best in the business. We provide pest control services to cities and towns around Edmonton, including Sherwood Park, St. Albert, and other neighboring areas.
How Can You Tell If You Have Voles?
If you have snakelike tunnels on your lawn, you likely have a vole infestation. Reach out to us for voles control if you have a vole infestation and want to prevent and manage the population from ravaging your yard. Birch Fumigators assesses each scenario to choose the best solution for eliminating the rodents. Some signs to determine vole infestation in your property include:
- Vole droppings
- Small tunnels or runways in your yard
- Small gnaw marks on the bark of trees
- Drooping plants
How To Get Rid Of Voles In The Garden?
There are a few ways to get rid of voles in your garden. One way is to set up a live trap and catch them. You can also use poison bait, which will kill the voles. If you have a serious vole problem, you may need to call in a professional to help get rid of them.
Another way to get rid of voles is to remove their food sources. This means getting rid of any potential nesting sites and food sources. You can do this by trimming back vegetation, removing debris, and sealing up any holes or cracks in your foundation. This will make your property less appealing to voles and other pests.
