A screech owl emerges from his box. Officials with Canyon County Weed and Pest Control have a program in which they set up owl boxes at a discounted cost to help control gophers, but farmers have been ...

Commonly found throughout Idaho, the meadow vole can cause significant problems to lawns and landscapes. Meadow voles are small, chunky, ground dwelling rodents. When mature, they measure 4 ½ to 5 ½ ...

1. Biological pest control is gaining greater acceptance as an important part of integrated pest management for sustainable agriculture. However, knowledge regarding biological control of rodent pests ...

Our street is new, having been a Christmas tree farm, and before that a potato farm. There are just a dozen houses here, and last year, for the first time, about half of us found that voles enjoyed ...

Voles or field mice populations are increasing due to a mild winter. Vole populations crash every 2-5 years, due to cold weather and a lack of food and shelter. This year, vole populations are ...

Have you ever had plants or bulbs that seem to disappear below ground or plants that look as though a critter was below ground gnawing at the roots and stems? If you have experienced some of these ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- With the melting snow outside, you might notice your yard looks torn up with crisscrossing trails. Pest control experts at Wil-Kil in Sun Prairie say those are usually caused by ...

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 ...

Keeping water vole and mink populations apart is vital if efforts to reintroduce water voles, one of Britain's most endangered mammals, are to be successful. Keeping water vole and mink populations ...