What Do Voles Eat?

Voles are small rodents that are similar to mice. Voles are more herbivores as opposed to carnivores. Even though it’s possible for voles to eat insects, meat, and some animal matter, that’s now what they regularly eat. Interestingly, voles don’t live for too long. In fact, most of them only live for a few months because they are hunted, attacked, and eaten by their predators. As herbivores, voles will eat plants, fruits, grass, stems, leaves, and son. You will learn more about the feeding habits of voles in this article.

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Learn What Voles Eat

Voles eat asparagus roots, allium bulbs, astilbe, apples, azaleas, asiatic lily bulbs, anemone, alyssum, bird seed, bulbs, berries, bark, bee balm, and blueberry bushes. Also, voles eat bean plants, begonias, beets, coneflowers, cucumber plants, columbine, corn, caladium bulbs, cucumbers, clematis, daylilies, dahlia tubers, daisies, and dianthus.

The majority of voles eat plants, flowers, and grains. Voles can eat evergreens, fern roots, lettuce, leaves, hydrangeas, roses, marigolds, mushrooms, peonies, flower bulbs, vines, grass, garden plants, lupines, and plant leaves.

Voles don’t eat ants, bugs, cicadas, earthworms, grasshoppers, insects, slugs, snails, snakes, termites, mice, lizards, owls, worms, frogs, or foxes. However, voles can eat eggs, eggplants, bird eggs, elephant ears, foxgloves, green beans, garden vegetables, garlic, grubs, grass, lily of the valley, and lavender plants.

It’s not likely that voles will eat daffodil bulbs, dog food, cat food, or dog poop. However, voles do eat cheese, delphinium, fruits, fruit tree roots, flower roots, black eyed susans, geraniums, jasmine plants, kale, nuts, and ferns. There’s a bit more as well. Voles eat echinacea, flowers, elephant ear bulbs, grubs, gladiolus bulbs, hostas, iris bulbs, impatiens, junipers, Japanese iris, knockout roses, and lilies.

In general, voles will also eat onions, potatoes, pepper plants, lil bulbs, milkweed, mint, moss, roots, rose roots, rose bushes, vegetables, squash, watermelon, and wilder flowers. Additionally, voles can eat tree bark, turtle eggs, tomatoes, tomato plants, lantana, creeping jenny, strawberries, sunflower seeds, strawberry plants, radishes, sunflowers, peanut butter,  peanuts, verbena, and vinca plants.

There’s not a lot that voles won’t eat as it pertains to plants and flowers. Voles are able to eat nandina, oregano, peony roots, peony tubers, roots plants, wheat, tulip bulbs, mums, dandelions, ornamental grasses, rhubarb, shrub roots, sedum, and rhododendrons. Rat poison can kill voles. Also, voles aren’t known to eat moles or dead voles.