Is it a mouse, a shrew or a vole? Gardeners seem to be overrun with them this year. So, how do you tell the difference? And how do you keep their numbers down? Mice are commonly attracted to the ...

A: Voles are small, chunky, ground-dwelling rodents. Mature voles are 5 to 7 inches long and have stocky bodies, short legs, and short tails. Voles are frequently mistaken for moles and mice. Moles ...

Voles look like the invention of a children's book illustrator who has been asked to draw a mouse as a portly, jolly gentleman. Mice are cute, but voles are well on their way to being adorable. Yet ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Thunder, lightning, rain and flooding. Eastern Corn Belt farmers have seen and heard it all this spring. Now that the atmospheric fireworks are subsiding, producers could face a ...

I keep hearing about how bad the vole problem is this year. Do you have any advice for keeping them at bay, and keeping them from eating my lawn and veggies? — Elizabeth, Silverthorne Elizabeth, so ...

Voles can cause damage in the landscape by eating flower bulbs, girdling the stems of woody plants, and gnawing roots. Sometimes, you may not even know that voles have eaten on a plant's roots right ...

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