Voles are not long-lived, living from 2 to 16 months. Another challenge: Predators such as hawks and owls don't do much to control the population. Certainly owls and other predators catch voles ...

Foxes, on the other hand, hunt voles from the surface. They can hear movement and jump into the subnivean zone, catching prey even a couple of feet down. Coyotes eat an occasional vole and owls ...

The beverage is for him, the peanut butter for dozens of mousetraps he sets to catch voles. “There is nothing exciting about setting mousetraps,” he says, placing a dab of peanut butter under ...

Your best bet is to catch voles with old-fashioned mousetraps that you set where you see these holes, according to extension service. Bait the traps with peanut butter or small slices of apple ...

In small gardens, try trapping. Place traps along vole runways at frequent intervals and continue to trap in the same areas until you stop catching voles. Depending on garden size, you may then ...

So even though they are by far the most common of the state’s voles – chubby looking, thickly furred rodents – and even though they are active year round, day and night, catching sight of ...

I’ve tried all methods of catching voles, and none of them work very well. I can report that my voles are so fat they’re too big for mouse traps, which is one suggested method for dealing with ...

You can catch voles in mousetraps baited with a piece of apple, but one at a time is not a very satisfactory way to eliminate voles. Q. We noticed yesterday that one of the branches on our new ...

FAIRBANKS - It’s prime time for planting the garden, and I’ve been getting lots of questions about voles. Until moving to Fairbanks, I’d never heard of voles that climb fences and eat ...