A diet of fruit, succulent vegetation, and especially fungi that it excavates from the forest floor indicates that dependence of this species on water, which is acquired from both food, and by ...

Extension educators are surveying southern and eastern Idaho potato farmers to document the scope of their problems with ...

Where meadow voles inhabit orchards or yards, the damage to woody vegetation may be extensive. Seeds and tubers stored underground in autumn are alternative winter foods. By cutting the stems of small ...

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

Voles also may nibble on fruits or vegetables, leaving them on the stem. Also called meadow mice, these rodents are 3 to 7 inches long with short legs and tails with stocky bodies. As a food ...

In many ecosystems, rodents serve a huge role in harvesting plants for food and serving as a primary diet source for a plethora of predators. In the Mojave, where Amargosa voles live, the only known ...

Grouse, hares, and voles feed on vegetation, and the availability of their preferred foods will influence the population size of each. The availability of food acts as a bottom-up control that ...