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  • From: david.maxwell@dal.ca
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Vole damage? Not!
  • Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:38:50 -0300

The photo is fascinating. But my problem is not with meadow voles (which
chew the trunk
bark), but with pine voles, (who live in underground tunnels, dining off the
roots of my apple
trees.) The tree guards won't help here.

In passing, I don't use the spiral guards, which run into a bit of money if
you have a lot of
trees. Instead I cut sections of the corrugated black plastic drainage pipe,
(what is called
"Big-O" locally, although I don't know whether this is just a local term). I
slit this down one
side and pop it on the trunks in the Fall. It is important to take it off in
the Spring, otherwise
the round-headed apple borers use it to hide their egg-laying.). One gets
this pipe at the
local building supply, where it is sold in long lengths, which are easy to
cut into sections with
a saw. (I use a jig saw, which cuts sections and slits them in seconds.)




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