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	Moles


	Moles are not rodents. They are insectivores and related to shrews and bats. Moles do not hibernate. Mole mounds are shaped like a volcano and can reach heights of up to two feet tall. Moles activity is often identified by the many surface tunnels through the grass in a yard. Moles can dig up to 18 feet of surface tunnels per hour. Moles can travel through their existing tunnels at 80 feet/minute. Moles found in Minnesota are primarily Eastern moles. Moles primarily eat earthworms, but also eat insects and their larvae, as well as some vegetation,


	Voles

Voles, also known as meadow mice, live and feed on the soil surface or just below the surface.
Voles often use mole tunnels for travel below the surface. Evidence of voles using mole tunnels is open holes in the tunnels.
Although voles are sometimes confused with moles, the two do not have much in common except their capacity to be a nuisance in yards and gardens.
Moles are silver gray and most voles are rusty to chocolate brown.
Voles often leave little evidence of their presence apart from damage they do to trees, shrubs and vegetables.
They feed primarily on plants.
Voles seldom enter homes but are sometime found in farm buildings or garages where grain or hay is stored.
Vole populations run in two to five year cycles. Some years there might be great numbers of them and then suddenly the population dies off.


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