RE: vole damage pics

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• To: <g*@hort.net>
• Subject: RE: [CHAT] vole damage pics
• From: &* &* <j*@prairieinet.net>
• Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:01:03 -0600
• In-reply-to: <003301c3ff2e$6db1e760$2f73a8c0@D95T7M11>

Snap traps? Is that another name for mouse trap? Didn't someone post a
few ways to trap voles last year... now what did I do with that
e-mail...

Donna
So besides a rabbit fence- what other ideas do you folks have for
controlling rabbits?.. seems the wild life here has taken over, and
refuse to be hospitable toward my plants- if they can't live together-
than something has to go, and it is not my plants! 


> 
> Best way to reduce vole damage is to reduce their numbers during the
year.
> I
> use two snap-traps under a large plastic tub set along a wall in my
> garden.
> Only voles and mice can get in. I bait the traps with peanut butter
coated
> with bird seed and set them against the wall. Last year I caught a
total
> of
> 74 voles and mice. The previous year numbers were a little lower. I
seldom
> have any vole damage now but I wish they made similar traps for
rabbits.
> 
> Dan in PA

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