Low fences made of ½-inch hardware cloth installed around garden beds and sunk 6 to 10 inches into the soil shield gardens ...

Experts suggest some “sleuthing” is necessary to ensure gardeners are not aiming at the wrong animal by identifying their ...

Voles are small mammals that tend to have large heads, compact bodies, and short noses. Microtus means “small ear” and the voles of this genus have short ears that barely protrude from the fur ...

This slender vole has relatively prominent, rounded ears, and long coarse fur, buffy to yellowish gray on the sides and silvery gray on the underparts of the body. The bicolored (dark brown above and ...

If you wake up to find scratched up garden beds or lawns, it’s not a turkey ... They feed day and night because all that ...

California ground squirrels are also mostly "granivorous," although they have been known to eat bird eggs or the nestlings of local quail, pheasant, domestic chickens, and robins. There have been only ...

A California ground squirrel in Conta Costa County runs with a vole it hunted in its mouth. A study from UC Davis and University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is the first to document widespread ...

California ground squirrels, typically known for their herbivorous diet, were observed hunting and eating voles for the first time in July 2024. Researchers documented this surprising predatory ...

The water vole, which is on the red list of threatened species, has appeared in Hull Road Park in York for the first time Water voles - a species that has declined by 90% in the past 30 years ...