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| In my experience, vole damage results in somewhat round circles of thin to no beans where you can find their little holes in these rough circles. You will probably also see smaller beans than the surrounding as some of the beans try to regrow.
While post emerge spraying, if I find any visible colonies, I'll mark it with a flag and go back out later and pour a few bromethalin pellets down the many holes, trying to not expose other species to the pellets. Tomcat is the brand Farm and Home sells. I've been on the same bucket for years, and in this one 4 lb. bucket is a bunch of sealed packets with green pellets to help keep it fresh.
I don't find vole damage along the edges, instead scattered in the deeper parts of a field as the edges get patrolled by predators a lot more than the interiors of a field.
But yeah, if you don't like vole damage, or severe deer damage for that matter, don't shoot coyotes, bobcats, feral cats, etc. OK, feral cats won't likely be taking down any deer, lol, but the other 2 can significantly reduce fawn recruitment rates.
Along field edges if you have a treeline, girdle one every so often among those you don't prefer as snags help feathered predators be able to see and hunt from. Don't do this if you hate picking up dead limbs in your fields, don't ask me how I know.
In this particular case, I don't think you're seeing vole damage. | |
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Voles and soybeans along the field edges?
