Re: perennials DIGEST V3 #246

In a message dated 7/25/2003 12:01:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
perennials-owner@hort.net writes:


> Walter, would you like to tell us your secret? I have a family of voles I 
> would love to see gone...
> 

Donna:  A local retail nurseryman showed me how he kept the voles from eating 
his inventory and it worked extremely well for me and I find it 
environmentally safe.  
Buy a length of 1 1/2 inch PVC pipe.  Cut the pipe into 12 inch lengths; 10, 
14 , approximate since voles don't measure.  Now fit the ends with elbows that 
simply slide on.  I found there are a number of different style elbows so I 
bought different styles for that designer look :>) and found that the voles 
don't care.  
The bait is rodent bar/wax bait whhich , if a bar, cut into approx 1 1/2 
sections and stuff into the trap at the bend in the elbow.  Home Depot and Lowes 
sell 1 inch blocks and they also work but I prefer the bar bait  Do not use the 
little tablets as the little buggers can carry that away and store it . Place 
the traps at a hole/vole entrance and watch the bait be nibbled away.  It is 
quite easy to pick up the pipe and see the condition of the bait.  In the 
begiining I would see a bait eaten in two days, but eventually it slowed down.
Voles are known to have 5 to 10 litters per year and three to six little ones 
each litter.....new meaning to the word litter. They are active all year long 
but my biggest problem comes in the winter.  They travel in Mole tunnels but 
create their own above ground highways through soft most soil amd they love 
mulch.  
Finally, I believed and have found that these traps are safe from other 
animals and birds, though I did hear of a racoon upsetting the trap and possibly 
eating the bait ......but I have never experience this and I have 15 traps out, 
though now there is no more voles nibbling.
Any Questions?
Walter in Bucks County, Pa       

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