Re: vole damage pics

Kitty,

Our neighborhood has 4 feral cats that come to my pond for drinking water. I
would think that they would control the voles and to some extent the
rabbits. I have been setting traps for the last 3 years and the numbers are
consistently high. Our Hort agent said that if you have a bird feeder in the
yard you will always have a lot of voles and mice.

Dan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 10:11 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] vole damage pics


> Dan -
> 15 yrs ago when I had vole problems I used a contained trap that held bait
> and water.  It worked well.  I've had no real problem since.  But it could
> be that the populations simply have cycled and are high here this year.
> Also about 5 yrs ago it might have been bad, but my youngest cat Seamus,
was
> just a little guy then and was able to get to the vole nest.  Brought me
at
> least 60 baby voles.  At the talk I attended today, the speaker showed a
> trap just like you described and used in the same manner.  I may have to
get
> myself a few.
>
> Ktity
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel Roman" <djroman@worldnet.att.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 8:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [CHAT] vole damage pics
>
>
> > 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
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 8:13 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] vole damage pics
> >
> >
> > > yikes is right.  It's too early though for me to lift the straw
covering
> > the
> > > Hosta babies and do anything with them.  It may have been 55 today,
but
> > only
> > > 40s for high later and can easily go back to teens for highs.  March
is
> > like
> > > that around here.
> > > Kitty
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@hort.net>
> > > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 7:26 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [CHAT] vole damage pics
> > >
> > >
> > > > Yikes, Kitty, they were having fun in your garden this winter!  I
> > > > know I have similar under the leaves out in the woodland garden;
have
> > > > seen some signs of surface tunnels.  Hope they didn't hit your hosta
> > > > babies but if you've got voles, they will find them.  They chewed
the
> > > > roots off half a dozen large clumps for me last year as well as a
> > > > rather large Aralia cordata.  Finally just dug them all up and
> > > > planted them in  5 gal. nursery pots with the bottoms off; sunk in
> > > > the ground with bottom filled with 3/4" driveway gravel and top of
> > > > pot about 3" out of the ground.  I'm hoping that will foil the
little
> > > > beggars.  No telling what they did under the snow we had, but so far
> > > > the pots look OK.
> > > >
> > > > Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
> > > > mtalt@hort.net
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> > > > ----------
> > > > > From: Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net>
> > > > > Hard to tell yet about plant damage.  I'm concerned about damage
to
> > > > a bed of
> > > > > 100 baby hostas.  That's where the red-arrow-marked trail led to.
> > > > Of course
> > > > > the hosta aren't up yet and the bed has straw cover so it may be
> > > > awhile
> > > > > before I know.  The main visible damage so far is the grass.
> > > >
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