It is true that you are not likely to endure the pain caused by small St Louis rodents like voles when they find their way into your well-manicured lawn. The type of burrows and tunnel systems these animals cause within your yard makes it pitted as well as rutted part of your garden or farmyard. Sometimes these animals are mistaken for a mouse because of their color appearance. If you see the tunnels that these animals cause you may think they are moles, but the truth is that the damage they cause within your garden and the size of the system tunnels made indicate the real fact of voles as a problem.



• Avoid the use of poison
When you discover the Missouri voles have attacked your garden, do not think of implementing a poison as your first option. You are likely to face one problem when you use such technology because it will be difficult for you to be sure that you are killing voles alone since there are other animals that you may end up killing that may have entered within your farmyard. The different challenge you are likely to encounter is that you are likely to spend a lot of poison to kill the voles because they are often quite numerous. Another major problem caused by the use of poison is that a lot of carcasses are likely to be left and such leftovers can attract animals which feed on carrion, and such problem may be more unpleasant as compared to voles themselves.

• Use the lethal traps
The best technique for you as a professional to kill the St Louis voles is applying the use of traps. The method of snap traps can assist you to eliminate these animals entirely since they are placed at the entrance of the tunnel system made by these animals. Addition, the use of baits like peanut butter, adds value so that it makes your trapping more successful. The only challenge of using traps is that most of the voles live in large groups and if you apply a trap you are not likely to trap all of them once. Applying the above technique in your garden will be easier for you to kill voles completely.

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