Effective Vole Removal
Are there signs of a vole infestation in your home or business? Quality Affordable Pest Control delivers a highly sought-after method for vole removal throughout the GTA.
The vole, also known as the field mouse or meadow mouse, is a small North American rodent found throughout many regions of the Toronto area. If you look out onto your yard and notice tunnels and holes, you may need to contact Quality Affordable Pest Control for our vole removal services.
Voles can be active year-round but usually appear at night. Typically, they will dig underground for many reasons: to store winter food and give birth to their young. Although these rodents tend to live near each other, they can be very aggressive to one another. This is specifically evident in males during their breeding season and can sometimes cause damage to nearby fruit trees, garden plants and crops unfortunate enough to be caught in the crossfire. Voles feed on grass, tree bark, nuts and seeds.
Voles are herbivores, feeding mainly upon abundant grasses. If the grass is not readily available, such as during the winter, the vole may gnaw at tree bark as a source of nourishment; they may also eat nuts and seeds as treats when opportune. In captivity, people will frequently feed them lettuce and sunflower seeds as a critical supplement to their typical diet.
Voles can reproduce multiple times within a year; this is why it is important to contact a vole removal service early on. Average females have between one and five litters every year, producing about five babies in each litter. They only become reproductively active during a specific time of the year based on the length of the photoperiod. Our vole removal strategy sees us placing deterrents around your yard to encourage the meadow mice to relocate their litter elsewhere.
Meadow voles experience the greatest degree of reproductive activity during long photoperiods of fourteen hours of light to ten hours of night. This is why there is a big boom of vole births during the long summer days. It is best practice to hire vole removal before they get the chance to reproduce so heavily. Their reproductive rates can also fluctuate depending on the availability of food; if deprived of food for long periods, their reproductive rates can be reduced.
Frequently Asked Vole Removal Questions
What is the fastest way to get rid of voles?
If your vole infestation is in its budding phases, you can simply use catch-and-release, humane traps to safely move the little critters to a new home.
If they begin to breed and become a bigger issue, the fastest way to deal with them is to add deterrents to your lawn. Castor oil and capsaicin can be sprayed on your shrubs and levees to deter them from looking for food around your house. If somehow they have found a way around these measures, fox or coyote urine can also be used as a natural deterrent.
If all other DIY methods fail, you can rely on your local vole removal experts, Quality Affordable Pest Control, to humanely and quickly remove the voles from your home or business.
What will keep voles out of your yard?
The best way to keep voles and other rodents out of your yard is by cleaning up all possible food sources, such as vegetables left in the garden at the season's end. Doing this will help prevent voles from making a home out of your yard. Also, removing mulch from the base of fruit trees during the winter will help avoid an increase in vole numbers. If you intend to put mulch down on strawberries or other perennials, do so only after the soil freezes. If you do so before the soil freezes, you will be providing an ideal location for rodents to gain access to roots in unfrozen soil.
QAPC also offers preventative measures for voles, along with our vole removal services, to allow even further peace of mind.
Vole Removal You Can Trust
If left unchecked, at best, voles can cause extensive damage to your yard and property due to the number of burrows and holes created by these busy rodents. At worst, they can carry disease and infect you or one of your pets. Quality Affordable Pest Control has combined hundreds of years of experience in vole removal to quickly diagnose and perform our vole removal practice. Our technicians have protocols and will visit your property to look for signs of a vole invasion. Then, we will set humane traps and remove them from your yard, all within an affordable price range. For more information about our vole removal process, contact us today at (647) 502-3950 and get a free quote!
Vole Removal Services Near Me
Quality Affordable Pest Control has been servicing as a vole exterminator for all of Durham, York Region and the entire GTA for years, including Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa, Brooklin, Bowmanville, Courtice, Port Perry, and the surrounding areas.
Quality Affordable Pest Control are experts in vole removal in the GTA. We provide vole removal and vole exterminator services for all of the York Region, including Markham, Vaughan, Thornhill, Richmond Hill, Woodbridge, Stouffville, Uxbridge, Newmarket, East Gwillimbury, Maple, Georgina and King City.
