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 ...

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 ...

Last week I mentioned a few critters that can cause plant damage when we have snow-cover for a period. According to predicted temperatures for next week, it looks like the snow might be around a bit ...

We have been lucky this winter, but how long will our luck hold out? No, I am not referring to the amount of snow we have received or the “warm” winter temperatures we’ve had. Even in a winter like ...

DEAR JOAN: I could not figure out what was causing furrows in my lawn until one morning at first light, I saw a mouse running in the trail and grabbing a quick bite of grass before retreating back ...

Jeff in Manassas writes: “I could use some advice. We have a mole (or several moles by the looks of it) making a home in our yard. They’re in the grass and flower beds and we’re at a complete loss as ...

Crabapple Island (located in Bełdany Lake, NE Poland) was the site of concurrent study on the reproduction and survival of bank voles (Myodes glareolus) and yellow-necked mice (Apodemus flavicollis) ...

As the weather warms and we are spending time outside while practicing physical distancing (I like this better than social), we may be noticing “raceways” or small holes in lawns, grassy areas, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Twenty-eight short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda talpoides), 9 red-backed voles (Clethrionomys gapperi gapperi), and 52 woodland jumping ...

This slender vole has relatively prominent, rounded ears, and long coarse fur, buffy to yellowish gray on the sides and silvery gray on the underparts of the body. The bicolored (dark brown above and ...

Researchers are assessing the damage after a wildfire near the California-Nevada border burned through critical habitat for one of North America’s most endangered rodents. Monday’s lightning-sparked ...