Any gardener and a person who likes to delve in their own country, aware of the fact that in his garden or the garden lives a lot of mice.One of them is the vole.Mouse This is common throughout the world, and still continues to amaze scientists some aspects of their behavior.
hiking in this regard on the moles, they dig deep burrows.But unlike them, voles entrance to the housing side is in the loose earth.In addition, the mounds themselves they are much more gentle.
Among other things, all their moves are just a few inputs and outputs.Only one course can last 25-30 meters, lying at a depth of 0.4 m.
There are numerous nesting chambers, in which breed vole.This mouse is so fertile that in a particularly good season sometimes flooding the field.
And no wonder: in a good year for her single female takes eight litters, each of which is six pups!A simple calculation: if there is not enough predators, the five individuals voles can get 8500 adult mice.And it is for a season!As you can see, voles - mouse prone to proliferate.
she spends all day in his hideout, daring to come to the surface only in the evening.By the way, what eats the mouse vole?It feeds mainly plant food, causing a real hatred of agricultural producers.The colony of these rodents causes great harm to the fields, eating the year several tons of high quality grain!
should be noted that these mice - the real "foodies" who never dragged into its hole poor forage.Often these animals are storerooms, which stockpiled up to several kilograms of high quality selected wheat, rye and oats.
voles feature not only in the rapid metabolism (like other rodents), but also in the rapid growth of the teeth: to whittle them, the animal must always something to chew on.During the day, only one animal eats a food whose weight is equal to its own weight.
Any vole - a mouse that is particularly "love" gardeners.The fact that they are active even in winter.Needing to feed, clean vole gnaw the lower parts of the trunks of trees, why they just die.
distinguish this animal from the usual gray mouse is simple: it has a much more pleasant color and a short ponytail.Especially dangerous for voles incessant rains, as well as sudden and severe winter thaw.Nora floods in winter the water in them freezes, rodents deprived of food, shelter and warmth.
very important in the regulation of the number of birds of prey population.Average owl in a single year can eat up to a thousand voles.All foxes, martens, weasels and ferrets generally prefer to eat only them.Lusk, for example, one day can eat up to 20 well-fed mice.In addition, martens can wade right in their burrows as body structure allows them to be the way along a long and narrow tunnels.
note that as a result of ill-considered use of pesticides and poisons mouse die, but not all.Poisoning of their prey and owls eat mammals, mortality, which as time goes to 100%.
As a result, the surviving mouse in just a couple of months increase their number in the dozens of times.The result - a real ecological disaster, responsibility for which bears no mouse vole (which has a photo in the article), but a man.
