If you've noticed burrows, runways, or damage to your lawn – including the consumption of a variety of plants, such as ...

Keeping lawns mown to 3-6 inches limits food and protective cover for the voles and helps predators see this prey item. Keeping grass and mulch away from the immediate trunk will limit access to ...

a thriving vole population that has brought with it an awesome predator, a red-shouldered hawk. The school building isn’t very old, and I feel that by attracting the hawk, the designers have ...

In a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of Interior, 19 lawmakers are seeking a halt to the plan to kill 450,000 barred ...

Because, as the researchers found, the squirrels kept doing it. Again and again. They weren’t sit-and-wait-type predators, but instead chased down the voles over short stretches of dirt. The research ...

Clearing herbaceous vegetation along trails during colder months can expose these passageways, making voles more vulnerable to predators like hawks and owls. Mechanical Control: A Clean Garden is Key ...

Unlike snowshoe hares and ermine, mice, voles, and shrews don’t develop white coats in winter. Their dark fur stands out against blankets of snow, putting them in danger of detection by predators of ...

Water voles of course have native predators, such as herons, owls, pike, and foxes but their defence against these natural predators was to retreat inside their bankside burrows. Unlike native ...

Another explanation for the water vole migration to the Welsh uplands is the threat of the American mink, which has become its biggest predator. Parry says that the American mink was brought over to ...