vole problem

[slugcrusher]

Since last summer we have noticed about a dozen 2" diam holes in our borders. Just spotted a mouse-sized animal but with short tail and round snout -think it could be a vole.

Dont know if this is the right place to ask, but would like to know if voles damage crops. Are they regarded as vermin? What should we do?

[Alice]

Hello Slugcrusher, no expert here, but I had voles in my last garden (moved house recently). I never noticed any damage they did, they don't invade houses or sheds, and don't carry any disease that I know about - so don't regard them as vermin. We never did anything about them. Just left them for the owls to take care of. But see what others think.

[lainey lou]

I have the same thing at my lottie this spring, little tunnels EVERYWHERE!!!! So far though they don't seem to have done any harm to anything.

[peanut]

Voles are great! And an essential part of the food chain for Owls etc.