The stems and underground structures (roots, rhizomes, stolons, tubers, bulbs, corms) more than green foliage form much of the summer diet, which this vole obtains by tunneling. Seeds, nuts, and ...

Mosses, ferns, fruit such as blackberries, and other plants, e.g. mountain avens, mountain alder, goldenrod, and bunchberry form the bulk of the diet. Captive rock voles, when offered the berries from ...

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 ...

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

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

Another big difference between the two animals is their diet. Dickens confirms that voles eat vegetation and seeds, and will also eat the roots of some landscape plants. Instead of tunnels ...