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 ...

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 ...

The VOLE Spring Anthology Competition 2025 is now open for its next round of individual poetry submissions. The theme of this year’s anthology is titled CAN SPRING BE FAR BEHIND. Entrants can submit ...

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Usually found across riverbanks in Wales, water voles have now taken up habitat in the valleys, which could help prevent their local extinction. Robert Parry, chief executive of the Initiative for ...

“When we have cool, wet springs, it leads to higher slug and vole populations,” he said. “Whenever we have green vegetation and cover crops, that’s more food and habitat for voles and slugs.