Unsightly Vole Trails All Over Lawn!!
We did everything we could to prevent voles before winter (cut lawn short, removed leaves/debris, etc.). However, now that the snow is starting to FINALLY melt the yard looks absolutely disastrous. We...
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My parents have problems with voles but in North Carolina they are protected. It's difficult to walk in the yard because it is mushy. They don't have birch trees.Voles eat plants from the roots so you...
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ncgrrl is SOOO right! See if you can attract some barn owls. They eat an astounding number of varmints per year. Here is a link to more info, including info on putting up an owl box: Hungry Owl Project
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Love the idea but barn owls are so rare this far north. They are basically restricted to southern Canada. They find it difficult coping with snow on the ground for 6-7 months of the year, making a...
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Just googled it, and this sounds good: Ultrasonic Vole Controlwww.voles.com/Ultrasonic_Vole_Control.htm
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Perhaps the drumming neighbor took up drumming for just this reason?In the US we have county extension agents in many areas who can give advice in these matters. Do you have anything like that? Do...
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Gardenridge, I love your idea. I will look into that. You would the vibrations from next door would be enough to send the suckers scurrying! They are enough to send me running - that is a whole other...
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Opera. Early morning. From your bedroom window aimed at the next door house.Or music with some pentatonic atonal discordant sounds from another country. Then leave the house.
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My brother used something similar to what Gardenridge posted except his is wind-powered. It looks like a small windmill on a pole. It was very effective, so much that the neighbors (whose lawn the...
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