Removing this layer restricts the tree from moving water up from the roots or nutrients back down, a process known as ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

I wouldn’t have thought we’ve had enough snow yet to establish a true subnivean zone — the magical realm that forms under the snow each winter allowing mice, voles and shrews protection from both the ...

Earlier this summer, I began a series of articles on Lawn and Landscape Pests. We have looked at chipmunks and armadillos. As I watch the highway construction around the I-65/I-22 intersection, I ...

Migrating birds probably did it. That’s what UC Davis epidemiology professor Janet Foley says after DNA detective work confirmed that a disease-carrying tick only found in the southeastern United ...

I received a letter from a lady who lives in Petal. She was having a problem with her plants. Based upon her description, I came to the conclusion that she had voles. Voles aren’t a problem here on ...

Conservationists have reintroduced water voles into a river for the first time in more than 20 years. Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust said they had returned 100 water voles to a stretch of the ...

“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 ...