Start by getting rid of voles’ habitat. They dont like to be exposed to predators. With this in mind, says Smith, remove dense ground cover, keep the lawn mowed, keep mulch light around trees ...

Voles are very common and total prevention is impossible, but general yard sanitation may help keep vole numbers down. Remove woodpiles and other debris from the ground that may be hiding places for ...

Similarly, voles want to hang around where there are convenient places to hide. While you probably don’t want to remove your ...

"Water voles are mini-ecosystem engineers, rather like beavers, and they contribute greatly to healthy river ecology," Ali ...

Can you tell me what caused these holes in potatoes? They weren’t rotten but looked and felt like something had eaten them. This is how they came out of the ground. Voles may be the pest that helped ...

Lake District welcomes reintroduction of water voles Volunteers will check the pens in the coming days, eventually removing them when the newly wild voles have moved into their own burrows.

Voles eat tender stems, leaves, roots, tubers, flowers, seeds and fruits of many plants. They can be a nuisance for farmers. but there are ways to manage them — such as making fields inviting ...

Chris Packham uses a man-made burrow to investigate water voles, which are one of the rarest burrowing animals in the UK and an endangered species. He explains how they like to spend a lot of time ...

Arboreal residents of Oregon's drippy coastal forests, North Coast red tree voles have grown dependent on intact communities of thousand-year-old trees. Building nests on tree branches and rarely ...

Josh Huntsinger says the vole population has gotten completely out of hand, specifically at Doyle Ranch Park. "They're really small rodents and they kind of fill a niche between a gopher ...

A research study in the Cairngorms is hoping to help protect one of Scotland's most endangered bird species by counting the number of voles. The tiny mammals are an important food source for ...

"Two of my students came to me and said, 'Dr. Smith, we saw these squirrels eating a vole,' and I did not believe them," University of Wisconsin behavioral ecologist Dr. Jenn Smith said.