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  • From: <dwoodard@becon.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: [nafex] - VOLE BIOCONTROL
  • Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 08:09:52 -0400

I think most snakes are able to take baby mice, which are very small when just born.
I don't know how well the snakes can smell them, supposedly young deer have minimal odour.
I have noticed garter snakes in an apple orchard being thought by an experienced grower to be a sign of increasing vole numbers.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada



On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:31:26 -0400, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Barry Nichols <bnichols@ecotechinc.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [nafex] ole poison
To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>


True enough. I don't need to take one problem and make it into a larger
problem. My short list is:

1) Perches, nest boxes, and modifications for more raptors (hawks and owls)
2) rat snakes...or more snakes in general. Laying down coverboards between
trees provide refugia for them and they're always on guard!
3) shrews...even though they are much smaller, they will chase voles into
their burrows to kill them





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