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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] No voles here
  • Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:55:29 -0500

There are prairie voles in Nebraska. Since you are in a city there
could be few voles or none where you are. I'm wondering if young
fruit trees die because voles are eating the roots? I'll betcha.
This could explain unexplained and sudden deaths of smaller trees.
You don't often see voles but shrews are commonly seen on the ground.
Garter snakes are completely harmless to have around your yard.
Maybe they eat baby voles.

---- Original Message ----
From: billg@inebraska.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] No voles here
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 10:30:44 -0500

>
>> I don't have any voles.
>
>
>I was wondering about this, too. I THINK there are voles in Nebraska,
>
>but I've never had any problem with them. I've got mulch everywhere,
>and
>much of it is leaves and straw (along with wood chips), which is
>probably ideal habitat for rodents, don't you think? And I don't have
>
>any dogs or cats (the electric wire to keep squirrels out of my fruit
>
>trees does a pretty good job on stray cats, too, I suspect).
>
>However, my yard is absolutely crawling (if you'll excuse the
>expression) with garter snakes. They spend the winter under my old,
>detached garage, which has huge cracks in the concrete floor. This
>time
>of year, I can rarely work in the yard without seeing snakes. They
>are
>nothing but garter snakes (I'd like to get bull snakes sometime), but
>
>they'd probably take young voles, at least.
>
>I'm in town, so maybe that's the reason? Are voles more of a rural
>problem? I still wrap my young trees in the winter, but I haven't
>seen
>any damage on bushes - not even on currants, which someone here said
>are
>very attractive to voles.
>
>Just curious...
>
>Bill
>Lincoln, NE (zone 5)
>
>http://garthright.blogspot.com/
>
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