What a great tip. I have voles and a population of Brush Rabbits (Sylvilagus bachmani), a very tiny rabbit. The rabbits are too bad but the voles are awful. I will sure give this a try.
Thank you dormantsrule.

We use the same traps for 13 striped ground squirrels and they work great. They make a mess of our lawn.

that's excellent .. thank you!!

I use the same traps when mice manage to find their way into the house. We keep the traps set in the basement all year round.

They are the best traps! Really easy to set!

for those I love the electric traps.. keep it loaded under my sink at all times.. and one in the garage

I must be out of the loop as I don't know what a vole is, maybe they aren't in my part of the country.

I thought the same thing Pegi. Until one ran out in front of me. First time I saw one was this year.
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Fantastic tip!!!! And so badly needed here. My shopping list is growing.

I have chipmunks, moles, and voles or field mice whichever it is, or are they the same
thing? As of now, there are tunnels in most of the places we walk. The lawn is like
a washboard. I think the critters have already eaten everything in the daylily beds.

Earlier in the season, I had to re-sink a number of daylily seedlings due to the damage
from the critters.

Thank you for the fantastic tip.

Here's another link, Peggy - http://elkhorn.unl.edu/epublic...

Rabbits are a real problem here that never ends; multiplying by the millions they will munch foliage at nose level. We have tried Skyd and every kind of homemade spray and then bought a havaheart trap, which they don't go near.

I have found that planting the ornamental euphorbias, in the areas with plants that voles/mice/gophers, etc., really does work to keep them from eating the plants. They seem to do a big detour when they come into the area with euphorbia.

Thanks, both articles are really informant. Now if I had heard "field mice" I'd know what it was. Learn something new every day. Those little guys are just too overproductive and I'm glad I don't have issues with them.

Am I the only one who thinks this sort of trap is cruel?

Hi Sherri - I chose the snap traps because of instant death as opposed to glue traps or poisoned bait containing anticoagulants, which causes death by slowly bleeding to death internally

valleylynn said:I have found that planting the ornamental euphorbias, in the areas with plants that voles/mice/gophers, etc., really does work to keep them from eating the plants. They seem to do a big detour when they come into the area with euphorbia.

thanks!!!

Allison, I can now grow lilies, and have for the last three years, thanks to the euphorbia.

I am thinking that's why most of mine disappeared this year

That and gophers. I wonder if mice will eat them also?

I had a nice established patch of black beauty .. gone.. and many others.. and we had groundhogs here as well.. wasn't a good lily year

Sherri - I have used these for a couple years. They are very forceful. Better than any other traps, and way, way better than glue traps or poison. After using them, and seeing how they work, I think it is instant. With old style traps, I do not think they have enough force to be instant. Sometimes they are, but not always. The Ortho traps are.

I tried the live traps in the past. They just did not work. It is a nice idea to trap and release, but the trap has to catch them first, and I have not used any live traps that ever caught any mice.

I did not realize they were instant - that is humane, if it causes instant death. Good to hear!