You may recognize those unsightly raised ridges and bumps all over your lawn as the handiwork of moles digging around for their dinners. But some types of tunneling are caused by a different small ...

Voles look like the invention of a children's book illustrator who has been asked to draw a mouse as a portly, jolly gentleman. Mice are cute, but voles are well on their way to being adorable. Yet ...

When the snow melts, you may find your lawn has become a maze of tunnels and burrows created by voles. Winter is a time when most plants are dormant and many creatures hibernate ” but not voles. Voles ...

If the male prairie vole were a human guy, we might call him “highly evolved.” Among the world’s 5,500 mammalian species, he’s among the roughly 5% who, for the most part, mate for life, and who stick ...

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Two prairie voles, life-long mates, sit in separate cages. One hears a distinctive tone, and receives a small electric shock. When the voles are reunited, the second vole quickly starts licking and ...

But a programme to boost numbers by partners including Essex Wildlife Trust (EWT) and Waterlife Recovery Trust has seen an ...

Endangered water voles in Wales are being fed edible glitter in a bid to save them from extinction. Once commonly found across south Wales, water voles are now effectively extinct in all but a few ...

Turns out, it's not just human couples that suffer when one partner drinks significantly more than the other. New research reveals that unequal drinking also takes it toll on prairie vole couples, ...

“With the snow in my garden now mostly melted, I am seeing what appear to be tunnels in my lawn in a few areas. What is happening here, and is there something that I should do now?” The damage you are ...

Depending on the species, voles construct surface or underground runways in areas with heavy ground cover. “Voles are active day and night, year-round,” says Robert Pierce, PhD, state extension ...