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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 ...
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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.