Voles Digging Holes In Yard

Holes throughout the lawn are usually sourced to small rodents like voles or moles or insects.

Voles digging holes in yard.

This guide helps diagnose what s digging tunneling feeding and otherwise disturbing turf grasses. Birds make holes in sod as they search for food and earthworms make small little holes the size of pencils to aerate the soil and provide air to their tunnels. Vole holes may be even as small as a dime. Holes are another visible sign of vole activity.

The runways may be about one to two inches wide. The only visible evidence of a vole burrow is the neat exit holes an inch or two across. Eliminate entryways even though you re more likely to see other rodents like mice and rats inside your home voles are the same size and just as likely to make their way there. Voles are small little mammals that spend part of their lives underneath the ground which makes them hard to detect.

Vole holes can be right out in the open or cleverly hidden under foliage or debris in the garden. Use the links above the graphic to find more information about many of the offenders and be sure to check out our problem wildlife page for more details on other wildlife conflicts around homes and farms. The animals dig dime sized entrances to their burrows around the roots of plants. Moles are all nose and mouth.

Evidence of a vole problem is easy to see but spotting these shy nocturnal pests is rare. In contrast moles are not rodents. Voles myodes are small stocky rodents similar to field mice. Pesky voles and shrews create small holes with openings of about 1 to 1 1 2 inches while squirrels and chipmunks leave behind 2 inch holes.

A vole s burrow can be identified by holes found in lawns or around the base of trees. Voles have small rounded ears that are often hidden by their fur small eyes and short tails. Some are commonly called meadow mice or pine mice. In fact a vole might look like a mouse at first glance.

Following surface runways often leads to a vole hole. Voles may travel through mole tunnels but also dig their own burrows. Signs of voles in your garden may include runways on the surface of the ground on in your lawn. Preventing vole lawn damage.

Mole holes are covered by a hill of earth while a vole hole is not. The grass immediately surrounding the hole will be very short. Voles look like mice. Even though these little critters only grow to be 5 7 inches long they can cause massive destruction to your yard and garden so figuring out how to deter voles is paramount.