P.S This might interest you also. My garden was invaded by oodles of voles that were chewing up all my root crops and well as my dahlia roots.. And last summer using mouse traps that I sat by the vole’s holes and covered with flower pots, II caught 44 voles, 11 moles and 8 field mice. First I put peanut butter on the traps. That worked but the ants would find the traps and eat it. So, I thought, well the voles just loved my potatoes last year, so I used small cubes of potatoes as bait. I had 6 traps and sometimes I would catch as many at 8 varmints a day! So far I haven’t seen any signs of vole holes in the garden this year. This is interesting also, since moles are carnivorous they would eat some of the voles I caught. And by them inspecting the traps for voles (they don’t like potatoes!) they would get caught first!

Thanks for your site. I’m enjoying it. Of course, I’m supposed to be working on
my blog, but it’s Spring and so hard to stick to business. RE the fence:

I want to bury the bottom of outside fence about a foot to keep out smaller
critters. The article says that landscape clips is enough.

Do you think the latter, which is easier for sure, is just as effective?
Fortunately, the black snakes keep the rabbit population down some (it’s
relative — there’s no parallel “black snake” for the deer) but I could see
either the big or small critters determinedly working at those landscape pins.

I’m also plagued by moles & voles. The moles have been decreasing since I
started using milky spore a few years ago. I don’t want to eradicate them since
they do take care of many grubs. I saw fewer Japanese beetles last year (my
fault — I put up those lures a few seasons back and attracted every J.B. in
the county. Never again). I picked off a # of them last year, but of course
they mate all the day long, so who knows how many eggs they managed to lay
first. Having sex while they eat the foliage…gag. I know more about J.B.
habits than I ever wanted to.

Anyway, the moles and voles have eaten all the tulip bulbs. Some had been in
the same place for twenty years. I bought some stuff to soak them in that was
supposed to make them unattractive to whatever rodent is eating them. Didn’t
work.

Back to the drawing board.

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