While I may not be out in the garden during this time of year, the frozen landscape of Illinois in January still has plenty of life. In fact, there is ...

I’m like most born-and-raised Minnesotans in that a lake place lurks in my personal history. For a short time when I was a teenager my parents owned a cabin in the North Woods. There we spent summer ...

The vole is a small, little creature that makes tunnels and eats the bark around trees and shrubs. They also find the roots of many plants and bulbs delectable. Therefore, vole damage can be ...

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 ...

As we begin to refocus our activities from those outdoors in the landscape to the warmth and comfort of the indoors, it is important to remember that there are powerful forces at work in your ...

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 ...

My column on moles a couple of weeks ago prompted readers to ask about voles, another pesky critter in the garden. If you get confused about what attracts moles and voles to your garden, there’s an ...

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 ...

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, ...

SQUEAKING FREELY: A controversy rages: Was this rodent skittering in front of the president a mole, vole, mouse or rat? AP WASHINGTON — They were certainly making a mountain out of a molehill at the ...

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) ...