Who Preys on Voles?

Many predators including coyotes, foxes, badgers, weasels, cats, gulls, and especially hawks and owls eat voles. However, in most cases predators can't keep vole populations below damaging levels.

How do professionals get rid of voles?

Voles can be removed humanely from a yard by using live traps, or they can be exterminated with mouse traps or bait traps (which use poisons). They can also be deterred by fencing and driven away with vole repellents.

What eats a field vole?

The young are born in a nest made of shredded grass, but most will not live long as the species is an important food source for numerous predators. Owls, kestrels, weasels, stoats and foxes are among the species that prey heavily on field voles.