Vole Traps

Walter,
I'm sorry but I didn't quite understand your traps.  Two pieces of pipe
connected with an elbow is one trap?  They are safe for other animals
because of the small diameter of the pipe, other animals can't get to the
bait?  Do you know if they are safe for chipmunks, as I have quite a few of
those?  Do you actually insert one end of the pipe into a hole?

On occasion I see some burrowing, but I have not seen the entrance hole --
don't think I ever really looked for one, though.  I do have a number of
holes in my garden, though (approx. 2" in diameter) which go down into the
soil -- snakes?  (I back up to woods, so that's what I've assumed.  Does
anybody know if chipmunks make/use tunnels?)

Thanks for the information!
Mea
Maryland -- Zone 7

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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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