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		<title>By: Karen</title>
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		<description>Deatra,

So glad the Jungle Flora has worked out for you.

As you know, Jungle Flora adds beneficial bacteria to your soil and promotes earthworm activity, as well as promoting plant and root growth.  So, it&#039;s impossible to rule out that the great health of your plants did invite the pests.  Voles, also called meadow mice, look very similar to gray mice. They do like to graze on vegetation, including grasses, herbaceous plants, seeds, flowers, leaves, roots of shrubs and small trees, bark, tubers, bulbs, and sometimes insects. In the summer they prefer green vegetation but switch to grains and seeds in the fall. You can use a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gardenharvestsupply.com/productcart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=470&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hot pepper&lt;/a&gt;, capsaicin, applied in the late fall and again in winter when weather permits.  
You can also use mouse traps in runs flush with the ground, with peanut butter, oatmeal or apple slices for bait.

Another similar critter that could be infesting your newly improved soil is the shrew.  It looks a lot like a field mouse except it has a long snout, like a mole. Its habits are similar to the vole but it likes to eat things like crickets, spiders, earthworms, slugs and centipedes. Because of what they like to eat, shrews are actually considered beneficial, so you can live-trap them and relocate to another location.

Happy Gardening!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Deatra,</p>
<p>So glad the Jungle Flora has worked out for you.</p>
<p>As you know, Jungle Flora adds beneficial bacteria to your soil and promotes earthworm activity, as well as promoting plant and root growth.  So, it&#8217;s impossible to rule out that the great health of your plants did invite the pests.  Voles, also called meadow mice, look very similar to gray mice. They do like to graze on vegetation, including grasses, herbaceous plants, seeds, flowers, leaves, roots of shrubs and small trees, bark, tubers, bulbs, and sometimes insects. In the summer they prefer green vegetation but switch to grains and seeds in the fall. You can use a <a href="http://www.gardenharvestsupply.com/productcart/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=470" rel="nofollow">hot pepper</a>, capsaicin, applied in the late fall and again in winter when weather permits.<br />
You can also use mouse traps in runs flush with the ground, with peanut butter, oatmeal or apple slices for bait.</p>
<p>Another similar critter that could be infesting your newly improved soil is the shrew.  It looks a lot like a field mouse except it has a long snout, like a mole. Its habits are similar to the vole but it likes to eat things like crickets, spiders, earthworms, slugs and centipedes. Because of what they like to eat, shrews are actually considered beneficial, so you can live-trap them and relocate to another location.</p>
<p>Happy Gardening!</p>
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