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Voles and Moles – Doing Battle with a Greedy Foe

voles in a yellow-gloved hand

Voles and Moles Voles will be the death of my gardens! I blamed last year’s very warm winter on the population explosion of voles at Bear Lake, Idaho. These greedy little animals even climbed in our cold frames and ate 1,000 lilium bulbs right out of nursery pots so their offspring were populating on gourmet food. It was unreal. We had no idea until the cold frame covers were removed and every single pot had a nice tidy hole where the lilium bulb had been removed. This started my war on Voles but it’s a war they are winning! This spring as the snow melted, huge areas of lawn are...