Last week I mentioned a few critters that can cause plant damage when we have snow-cover for a period. According to predicted temperatures for next week, it looks like the snow might be around a bit ...

Matted down, grassy trails in the lawn and missing bark on trees and shrubs in late winter and early spring might be when you first become aware of voles in your landscape. Fall is an important time ...

Q. When the snow melted from our last big event, I noticed what looked like trails running across my lawn. They began from a field near my property and led to a mulched area and groundcovers near my ...

In this episode, Don and John go over some safe and humane tactics for protecting your yard and garden from rabbits, voles, ...

Now that the snow is melting, I am starting to see damage to my lawn. I have tracks and trails throughout the lawn, about 1 inch in diameter. These trails go all over the place. It looks like the ...

The grass will be growing again before you know it, so while you’re out there checking out what winter did to the landscape, do some lawn-readying by raking matted leaves and removing trash, fallen ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. After a snowy January where 13.3 inches fell ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. (KRON) — In recent months, rodents have been overrunning a Livermore neighborhood. In Livermore, voles have increased in numbers. They are causing damage, and the problem has the ...

As plants wake up from their wintertime protective snoozes, this spring might have a few more unpleasant yard surprises in store than usual. In particular: that week of super-cold weather the third ...

As most people have begun mowing their lawns, they may have noticed the familiar mole runs or a curious above-ground network of runways. This is perhaps the most visual difference between the effects ...

The garden might be sleeping, but the voles aren’t. Close relatives of house mice, these small mammals munch away on delicacies like roots, seeds and bulbs day and night, 365 days a year. In winter, ...

TWIN FALLS — Armies of small, furry rodents are invading fields across the Magic Valley and chewing their way through forage intended for livestock. It’s not quite apocalyptic, but the vole population ...