Voles??

[jhouse]

Does this look like vole damage?
I found a few small holes, (2 or 3 inches in diameter) and my two cherry tomato plants are looking, well, sick. Wilt-y in places and generally unhappy.
No damage to fruit that I can see, but the leaves look so not healthy I wondered if the neighbors sprayed some herbicide. . .then I found the holes! Plus, one tomato plant on the end of the row is unaffected, so probably not herbicide. . .
I got some MoleMax (should work on voles as well) and very liberally sprinkled the granules around the tomato plants 4 days ago (active ingredient camphor oil which should drive them away), got some good rain that night so the granules are watered in. . had a couple of good days of weather, plants look recovered 2 days ago but today looking sick again.
Does this sound like vole damage?
And, should I be watering the granules in daily?
Or, I do have a good size mouse live trap -- should I just trap them?

thanks for any info!

re the hole pics -- holes come up thru the soil and thru the (heavy) straw mulch. That's my size 8 1/2 sneaker for scale.

Jan




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