Voles are nuisance rodents that make their homes in yards and gardens. Unlike mice or rats, they don’t typically look for food or shelter in human-made buildings and instead prefer the great outdoors of your perennial garden. However, they may move indoors and cause havoc if the weather is extreme enough and they have the opportunity. While voles aren’t harmful to humans directly, they can disrupt our lawns and gardens with their tunneling. Understanding these tunneling critters is the first step in effective vole removal. 

Recon Pest Services is Omaha & Lincoln’s top choice professional vole removal. Our gold-tier services offer interior and exterior rodent control that will keep your home and garden squeak-free year round. Contact us today to set up a free consultation with Douglas & Lincoln County, Nebraska’s best local vole exterminators. 

What Do Voles Look Like?

Voles, also known as meadow mice, are small rodents that measure around 4-8 inches in length. They have stocky bodies, short legs, and small eyes and ears. Voles have a dense fur coat that varies in color, from grayish-brown to reddish-brown. They are often mistaken for mice, which are slightly larger, measuring around 6-8 inches in length typically with gray or black coats.

Damage Caused by Voles

Voles are quite disruptive and destructive to homes and gardens. Voles are herbivores and primarily feed on the roots, stems, and bulbs of plants. While their vegetarian nature means they will often keep to your garden, they can make nests in homes if the opportunity presents itself. They create intricate tunnels and burrow systems just beneath the surface of the ground, which can lead to the destruction of lawns, gardens, and agricultural crops. Voles can be a serious problem for farmers, and the vole’s bread and butter are crops and seeds.

How Recon Pest Services Handles Vole Control?

Voles can be a tricky pest to deal with, but they’re one that we have plenty of experience with. We use a combination of trapping, baits, and repellents to get rid of voles. Primarily, we set up snap traps baited with food like apples or a combination of peanut butter and oatmeal. We tend to position these traps along vole pathways or close to their exit burrows. To ensure safety for pets or kids and provide a sense of safety for the target vole, we typically also cover the trap with a container or box with a small vole-shaped hole cut into it.

We also help by modifying the vole’s habitat. We remove excess brush and shelter, making it harder for the voles to evade capture from predators. We occasionally also use chemical deterrents, but these vary in effectiveness depending on the weather and season (as the rain can wash the chemicals away).

Professional Vole Removal in Douglas & Lincoln County, NE

DIY pest control is a time-consuming process that requires a lot of trial and error. If you’re busy taking care of your family or working to keep your home in order, leaving the tedious work to the professionals can save you a lot of stress. If you’re dealing with serious vole trails littering your yard on a regular basis, you might have an infestation.

See what other customers like you are saying about Recon Pest Services. Contact Recon Pest Services today for your free quote on professional vole extermination, and get your garden back in order! We’re the best exterminator for voles in the Omaha & Lincoln areas, so don’t hesitate to call us up for more information.

Can I Get Rid Of Voles Myself?

Although it’s always best to seek a professional pest control service for opinions, vole infestations can be mitigated through a few common DIY methods. First, set up traps like you would for mice. Hide the traps in areas of your yard where you’re seeing the most traffic from the trails they leave behind, and load them up with vole-friendly food like seeds and peanut butter. Voles also hate the smell of castor oil. Spraying a mixture of castor oil and water on heavy vole traffic areas can be a great, low cost way to nip an early infestation in the bud.

How Do I Keep Voles From Coming Back?

Maintaining a well-maintained lawn and garden is key. Regularly mowing the grass, removing weeds, and keeping the area clean can deter voles from creating burrows. Planting vole-resistant species and using protective barriers, such as wire mesh, around the base of trees and shrubs can also be effective. Additionally, fox and coyote urine can be purchased and used as a deterrent, since they are the vole’s top predators. Introducing a cat to the area can also scare voles away, but won’t usually be enough to combat a full infestation.

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Recon Pest Services

10125 J Street, Omaha, NE 68127

Phone: 402-683-7809