Rare species of bees, voles and dormice are among the creatures earmarked for protection in a new environmental plan. North ...

By Shanna Hanbury After more than a decade studying California ground squirrels, Jennifer Smith felt she had a solid ...

For the first time, scientists documented concerted carnivory by California ground squirrels. But why were there so many ...

If you’ve had trouble with crabgrass in recent years, early spring is the time to apply a granular crabgrass preventer to ...

From voracious vermin to destructive insects, pest issues are pretty much inevitable in any garden. Left unchecked, these ...

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 ...

The eyes are small; the ears short and nearly hidden by the fur surrounding them. Characters useful in distinguishing this species from other Adirondack voles include fur color and texture, and tail ...

Provided by Professor Janet Foley of UC Davis Veterinary Medicine. There are only a few hundred Amargosa voles left in the world with an 85% chance of going extinct over the next 10 years if intensive ...

JoAnne Skelly is Associate Professor & Extension Educator, Emerita University of Nevada Cooperative Extension.

University of Idaho Extension educators are surveying southern and eastern Idaho potato farmers to document the scope of their problems with mouse-like rodents known as voles. Extension educators ...

Over the next seven weeks at Briones Regional Park in California’s Contra Costa county, Smith’s team documented 74 cases of squirrels hunting voles (Microtus californicus). The findings have ...