I wrote a column on moles and recommended how to help you manage moles in your gardens. Moles and voles are not even in the same family. Voles, Microtus pennsylvanicus, or meadow voles, are voracious ...

Microtus means “small ear” and the voles of this genus have short ears that barely protrude from the fur surrounding them. The meadow vole is a typical representative of this group and has dull fur ...

Population levels, precipitation, and the relative abundance of other small mammals such as meadow vole influence local distribution in marginal habitat. Red-backed voles build nest 7.6-10.2 cm (3-4 ...

Perhaps most exciting of all, from a scientific perspective, prairie voles have near-identical cousins called meadow voles that share none of their social proclivities. By comparing the faithful ...

These were not just ordinary water-voles, but Grantchester Meadow Water-Voles, made tamer than most by living on the left bank of a river much traveled by punts and canoes, opposite a reed-fringed ...