RE: OT (?): El Nino's voles and moles



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From: 	Jill Froning Stovall, DVM[SMTP:sneedbe@pinehurst.net]
Sent: 	Friday, May 01, 1998 12:45 AM
To: 	perennials@mallorn.com
Subject: 	OT (?): El Nino's voles and moles

Dear Listmembers,
   I wonder if others are having more problems with rodent pests this
spring (thanks to El Nino)? I have voles (I think) that are as brazen as
the gopher on "Caddy Shack". I watched the little suckers pull down
Siberian iris and daylily leaves and munch them in broad daylight. I
suspect the subterranian tunnels and piles of dirt are from moles. Moles
I can live with.... the voles are a different story.
   I have searched the major garden sites and multiple parallel search
engines and they don't offer much advise that sits well with an organic
gardener, animal lover and bird feeder. I have multiple beds scattered
over an acre lot. I wouldn't know where to begin to put the
castor oil stuff (Mole Med??) and I am not sure it works for voles.
Any suggestions or commiserations??
Jill
Zone 7b/8
NC
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If you can see the "voles" eating in broad daylight I wonder if that is what you have.  We have terrible voles (pine) up here in Zone 7, Md and even being a birder,I use snap traps with fairly good success.  Our SPCA is also a bird rehab center and has a low budget, so anything that is live trapped they are very happy to have to use for injured bird food.  I also plant anything other than daffodils in wire baskets or plastic pots with the bottom cut out.  They will eat the roots of rhubarb, raspberries, etc. 

Jean, Zone 7, Eastern Shore of Md.

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