I planted bare root strawberry plants on Sunday per the directions from Gurney's (where I bought them). On Tuesday I checked on them to find most of them dug up and sitting next to the holes where I had put them, with their roots dried out. A few were missing but it was windy and they may have blown away. They did not appear eaten or otherwise damaged. We do have voles that I am trying to get rid of but my guess is this was a bird, squirrel, or other type of above ground animal? I have no ornery or malicious humans who would have done it. Do you have an idea of what did this and if it is worthwhile to try planting strawberries again (as in, can I prevent something from repeating this?) I was very excited to have strawberries to go with my raspberries this year. (Which have been well-established for years but I did plant the prickly kind to keep deer and such from eating them.) On a related note, I am using Vole-x to reduce my vole population but if you have other suggestions I'll gladly take them, too! I stopped feeding the birds for awhile to reduce the food supply for the voles and to hopefully make our property less popular with birds that would want to eat berries later in the season. (I understand per the directions that I need to remove blooms on the June-bearers the first year and the ever bearers until July, although that is now a moot point.) Thank you very much!