Where meadow voles inhabit orchards or yards, the damage to woody vegetation may be extensive. Seeds and tubers stored underground in autumn are alternative winter foods. By cutting the stems of small ...

A diet of fruit, succulent vegetation, and especially fungi that it excavates from the forest floor indicates that dependence of this species on water, which is acquired from both food, and by ...

Voles also may nibble on fruits or vegetables, leaving them on the stem. Also called meadow mice, these rodents are 3 to 7 inches long with short legs and tails with stocky bodies. As a food source ...

Grouse, hares, and voles feed on vegetation, and the availability of their preferred foods will influence the population size of each. The availability of food acts as a bottom-up control that ...