Voles primarily eat plants. They like to feast on roots, tubers, or bulbs, which puts crops like onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes, turnips, and beets at risk.
How do you stop voles from eating potatoes?
If you don't want to trap and kill the voles or mice, you can also “screen” them out of a raised bed planting of potatoes. Prior to filling the raised bed with soil, line the inside and bottom of the bed with galvanized metal hardware cloth. Neither voles or mice can dig or chew through the metal.
What is eating my potatoes in the ground?
Soil Insects Wireworms, flea beetles, potato tuberworm and white grubs are all soil-dwelling pests that feed on potato tubers. Wireworms are small, yellow-brown worms, while white grubs and potato tuberworms are white-ish. Flea beetles are tiny and black, but their destructive larvae are slender and white.
Do moles eat potatoes in the ground?
Mole Diet. Moles are carnivores, eating mostly earthworms, and filling in the rest of their diet with centipedes, grubs, millipedes, snails and slugs. Although a mole might undermine a potato plant as he digs, looking for earthworms, he generally isn't interested in vegetables.
Do mice eat potatoes in the ground?
Mice will go for stored potatoes and, if they are near to the surface they may well chew growing ones. Had you considered that it might be slug damage? Unusual if the potatoes are underground growing.
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