Once a familiar sight along Britain’s riverbanks, water voles now face extinction—thanks to a new predator. Can these ...

Walnut leaves, in particular, emit substances that repel voles. Simply place a few crushed leaves into the burrow, and the pests will flee from your garden within a few hours. Voles are an ...

Rock voles are active throughout the season, day and night, possibly foraging more in the morning than other times of the day. A substantial part of their activity is subsurface runs or burrows.

They live in colonies and can have runways about one to two inches wide, with four to five flat entrance holes to the burrows concentrated in a small area. Voles feed and tunnel day and night.

The latter emits substances that repel voles. Simply place a few crushed leaves into the burrow, and the pests will flee from ...

Chris Packham uses a man-made burrow to investigate water voles, which are one of the rarest burrowing animals in the UK and an endangered species. He explains how they like to spend a lot of time ...