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 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 toward one another. This is particularly 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 on grasses. If grass is not readily available, such as during the winter, voles may gnaw at tree bark as a source of nourishment; they may also eat nuts and seeds as treats when available. In captivity, people often feed them lettuce and sunflower seeds as a 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. Average females have between one and five litters every year, producing about five babies per litter. They only become reproductively active during a specific time of year based on the length of the photoperiod. Our vole removal strategy places deterrents around your yard to encourage 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 boom of vole births during long summer days. It is best practice to hire vole removal services before they get the chance to reproduce heavily. Their reproductive rates can also fluctuate depending on the availability of food; if deprived of food for long periods, reproductive rates can decrease.
Frequently Asked Vole Removal Questions
What is the fastest way to get rid of voles?
If your vole infestation is in its early stages, you can use catch-and-release, humane traps to safely move the critters to a new location.
If they begin to breed and become a bigger issue, the fastest way to address them is to add deterrents to your lawn. Castor oil and capsaicin can be sprayed on your shrubs and leaves to deter them from looking for food around your house. If they find 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 in your yard. Removing mulch from the base of fruit trees during 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. Applying mulch before the soil freezes provides rodents with an ideal location to access roots in unfrozen soil.
QAPC also offers preventative measures for voles, along with our vole removal services, for added peace of mind.
Vole Removal You Can Trust
If left unchecked, voles can cause extensive damage to your yard and property due to the number of burrows and holes they create. At worst, they can carry disease and infect you or your pets. Quality Affordable Pest Control combines hundreds of years of experience in vole removal to quickly diagnose and perform effective vole removal. Our technicians follow strict protocols, visit your property to look for signs of a vole invasion, 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 York Region, including Markham, Vaughan, Thornhill, Richmond Hill, Woodbridge, Stouffville, Uxbridge, Newmarket, East Gwillimbury, Maple, Georgina, and King City.