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  • From: Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] No voles here
  • Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:35:27 -0700 (PDT)

I think that is an interesting theory about voles eating the roots of young
trees and should probably be looked into by someone. What I see on black
raspberry plants here is not the voles chewing on the canes so much as eating
the roots, particularly the large roots near the crown of the plant. I will
very often see a vole hole within 3 or 4 inches of the crown of the plant.
If the plant is weak and I investigate further I almost invariably find that
most or all of the large roots eminating from the crown have been completely
chewed off. Incidentally I think this would be less of a problem in red
raspberries because the roots produce suckers which will send up new shoots
if cutoff from the original crown.

Michael


Michael Dossett
Corvallis, Oregon
www.Mdossettphoto.com
phainopepla@yahoo.com


--- On Sun, 4/25/10, Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com> wrote:

> From: Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] No voles here
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 1:55 PM
> 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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