Detecting Voles On Your Property
Difficulty Of Detecting Vole Activity
Voles are a species that like overhead cover to keep them protected from predators. Voles can burrow for nesting, but most of their activity includes running along the surface of the ground, right where the grass meets the dirt. In the warmer summer and fall months, they find harborage in dense shrubs, tall grasses, retaining walls, wooded areas and other places with cover.
Voles leave telltale clues to their identity via they damage the have wrought, and when it is seen. Here are a few of the signs of vole presence that you will be able to see during the warm weather months:
Spring/Summer/Fall
- Tree bark girdling
- Dying Sod
- Missing root systems of bulbs & plants
Winter brings snow, and snow brings cover – exactly what voles thrive on. Suddenly voles are free to roam through your yard, seeking food by traveling along the surface of the ground and tunneling right through the snow. They will continue to eat the root systems of bulbs, the bark off the bottom of trees, and even your grass. This activity creates an intricate web of dead grass runs in your lawn, forming a highway that wanders around, crossing itself and circling back. By the time spring arrives, the snow melts away to display the aftermath.
Winter/Spring
- Tree bark girdling
- Dead grass runs
- Missing root systems of bulbs and plants
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