We are under siege by voles... We're using mousetraps with clay pots over them around their holes. We've caught around 70 of them this year.
The vole is half the size of the mole or about the size of a mouse. The vole eats plants and uses the moles tunnels. The moles just make tunnels which are irriitating enough but the moles only eats grubs and other things other than plants. ''We plant everything in permitil but the voles will sneak out of a hole and walk right up to a hosta and start eating the stem where it comes out of the ground. They love hostas... Some folks have taken to planting their hostas in a steel mesh cage that extends above the ground with the top bent outwards like a little vole wall...
Man, I hares tme critters....
Flox (white-"David") is in full bloom. Deer ate a couple nast night so we sprayed everything with "Liguid Fence" tonight...