Mouse in the Lawn?

[AldeanFan]

Can mice live in my lawn and how do I get rid of them?

On the weekend I was mowing the lawn and saw a mouse in the grass. It traveled about ten feet and then seemed to disappear.
This was about 5’ from the road and about 60’ from my house or any other building or structure. The closest things were a large rock and my wife’s car.
How do you trap mice in the open?


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[Sevenhills1952]

Cat

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[LB-1911]

Could have been a vole, take up falconry.

 

[rjacobs]

if you see tracks of dead grass in your lawn you likely have Vole's...

I murdered 2 of them this year... One in a mouse trap and the other I saw come out of its nest or whatever and I beat it with a large stick...

No more Vole's...

 

[pcmeiners]

Are they in your house?, have they done anything to you or a family member? are they cramping your life style in any way?

 

[AldeanFan]

if you see tracks of dead grass in your lawn you likely have Vole's...

I murdered 2 of them this year... One in a mouse trap and the other I saw come out of its nest or whatever and I beat it with a large stick...

No more Vole's...

Had to look up what a vole was,
Now I’m pretty certain I was a vole and not a mouse.


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[AldeanFan]

Are they in your house?, have they done anything to you or a family member? are they cramping your life style in any way?

The goal is to catch them before they get in to the house or the garage or the shed or the trailer or one of the cars.

Last year I spent $1,200 when a mouse ate a wire on my wife’s car, so ya they are cramping my style.


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[Augus7us]

Replace your grass with concrete. Problem solved.

 

[Kaizen]

Had to look up what a vole was,
Now I’m pretty certain I was a vole and not a mouse.


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Pretty sure the three blind mice with cut off tails were voles. Easier to kill then mice. Just had one in the house. It would announce its arrival with loud squeaking. Didn’t live long. Put a baited mouse trap under a box near that area. Keep resetting till problem done.


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[ChefRex]

That lawn mower would have dispatched it right quick.

 

[b-boy]

The goal is to catch them before they get in to the house or the garage or the shed or the trailer or one of the cars.

Last year I spent $1,200 when a mouse ate a wire on my wife’s car, so ya they are cramping my style.


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I just paid $600 for repairs to my Tacoma.

Mice got into the air intake somehow and chewed through my cabin air filter.

The nesting and filter material got sucked into my heat/AC blower and trashed it. It started making a horrible whining sound. Had to have it pulled out and replaced.

 

[rjacobs]

Had to look up what a vole was,
Now I’m pretty certain I was a vole and not a mouse.

If you can find where there main nest entrance is you can place some regular mouse traps with peanut butter and give it a few hours. Thats how I got one. I reset the trap and when I was checking on it later, the other went out the other side of their nest entrance so I beat it to death and threw it over the fence. No more voles and my grass is growing back in their tracks...

 

[AldeanFan]

Vole trap is set
Wish me luck

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[LeonardY]

Vole trap is set
Wish me luck

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The porch pirate is going to really surprised when they grab that box.

 

[AldeanFan]

The porch pirate is going to really surprised when they grab that box.

I was thinking the same!


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[pcmeiners]

"Replace your grass with concrete. Problem solved."

Half of Staten Islanders have concrete lawns . Next door neighbor has about 4 square feet of his property (duplex) not covered with concrete.

 

[Sevenhills1952]

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[garfunkle24]

That lawn mower would have dispatched it right quick.

Correct, I proved this recently. I hate to kill anything honestly, but at least it was a quick death.

 

[Kaizen]

Correct, I proved this recently. I hate to kill anything honestly, but at least it was a quick death.

Wait till you hit a den of bunnies. I can still hear the screams 30 years later


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[Metallitubby]

Now I’m pretty certain I was a vole

I was a ferret. It is my spirit animal.

 

[mowkep]

I believe they also like to feast on grubs. Remove the food source and they move on.

 

[rjacobs]

Vole trap is set
Wish me luck

Any luck?

 

[Kevin54]

I believe they also like to feast on grubs. Remove the food source and they move on.

Moles eat grubs. Voles will eat roots of plants and bulbs. and seeds. In the winter, if you have snow, they will burrow in the snow and eat the bark at the base of trees.

 

[Arne73]

Voles are dirty bastards, destroyed my asparagus, tulips and a bunch of hostas.

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[AldeanFan]

No luck with the Vole hunt yet,
One of the traps was licked clean and the other was covered in ants.

Could ants have eaten all the peanut butter off a mouse trap?


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[mowkep]

Moles eat grubs. Voles will eat roots of plants and bulbs. and seeds. In the winter, if you have snow, they will burrow in the snow and eat the bark at the base of trees.

My bad, both were destroying my yard and grass.

 

[redmondjp]

No luck with the Vole hunt yet,
One of the traps was licked clean and the other was covered in ants.

Could ants have eaten all the peanut butter off a mouse trap?

Absolutely. On my outdoor traps, typically it's the slugs that eat the peanut butter. In the summer, the ants join in. It's frustrating when you have to check and then re-bait traps every few days and are not catching anything.