An underground barrier around the perimeter of your yard can do just that.
Moles and voles in yard.
However while moles tend to make large holes like groundhogs do because they excavate soil they often don t leave the lawn.
Voles can devour your flower bulbs munch on the roots of your carrots potatoes and other root vegetables damage your trees and shrubs eat your grass and leave well worn paths through your yard.
With two completely different diets.
Lawn moles and voles are difficult to get rid of.
Although they are often confused as one in the same ground moles and voles are two entirely different animals.
Bury 1 4 inch hardware cloth in an 18 inch trench and tilt the bottom 4 inches at a 90 degree angle away from the yard to discourage animals from tunneling.
Moles voles and groundhogs are often confused with one another because they all burrow beneath the ground.
The difference between ground moles and voles.
Others are more fortunate.
If something has been dining on your garden goodies chances are it isn t a mole.
Moles are insectivores and exist solely to eat insects.
Ground moles will not eat plants or the roots of plants.
Commonly when one animal leaves or is caught another arrives to take its place.
Moles aren t the only troublesome garden pests.
After catching one or two the problem seems to go away.