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["ROBERT W JUDY A HARTMAN" <hartmansfruit@msn.com>]

There was some discussion regarding the meadow voles on the Home Orchard Society Forum some time ago.  You might want to take a look at the discussion there.

It is http://www.homeorchardsociety.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1201.  My main damage takes place in the winter months.  I purchased and used some of the Quintox that is discussed but it was so late in the spring when I started using it I can't vouch for it yet.  Damage was reduced after applying it but it may have been that it was the time of the year when the damage subsides anyway.  I lost a lot of trees during the winter partly because we had heavy rains which flooded fields on two sides of us and where did the voles go but to our place which was slightly higher than the other two fields.  I could just hear them calling to each other and saying "Dinner".  They love tree roots.

 

Bob

Western Washington

----- Original Message -----

From: david.maxwell@dal.ca

To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 2:38 PM

Subject: [NAFEX] Voles

I have been checking my apple trees for signs of Round Headed Apple Borer (yes, they deserve capitals) (aka Saperda candida).  I was taken aback to discover that the trees which have not been attacked by Saperda are serving as nests for what I think is likely Pine Voles. (The burrows are several inches underground; my understanding is that meadow voles tend to burrow through the mulch but remain pretty much on the surface.)  Now, there was a thread awhile back on getting rid of squirrels with a mixture of peanut butter and plaster of Paris.  Would this work on voles??  Is there anything I can dump down the holes to terminate them? Any other advice in getting rid of them?

(I am not sure whether there is any significance in the fact that the trees with voles have no Saperda and vice versa.  This is 100%, but may just be chance, because there are trees with neither, (although most of them have terminal scab, or canker, or RAA, or fall caterpillar complex, or just plain mysterious fatal condition.)

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