Long-Distance Homing in Meadow Voles
, Microtus pennsylvanicus.
The trunks of young fruit trees should be protected from their bark being fed upon by meadow voles
Sparks used mousetraps in March 2007 to capture 42 small mammals, white-footed mouse (14 individuals), prairie deer mouse (8), house mouse (8), prairie vole (4), meadow vole
(4), and southern bog lemming (1).
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Habitat of the meadow vole
during a "population low.
The species found most frequently in scat was the meadow vole
(Microtus pennsylvanicus), which was found in 28% of scat samples (n = 14) (Table 1).
Although hantaviruses from North American arvicoline rodents have never been associated with human disease, antibodies reactive with Prospect Hill virus have been documented in American mammalogists, who have had extensive exposure to meadow voles
(Tsal et al.
, small polygamous rodents, may play the same game, a series of new experiments suggests.
One is the meadow vole
, which feeds mostly at the ground surface, and the second is the pine vole, which feeds underground.
longirostris), short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda), least shrew (Cryptotis parva), eastern mole (Scalopus aquaticus), white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus), prairie deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus bairdii), meadow vole
(Microtus pennsylvanicus), prairie vole (M.
Hantaan virus (HTNV) shares a multimillennium relationship with the striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius), Dobrava virus (DOBV) with the yellow-necked field mouse (Apodemus flavicollis), Seoul virus (SEOV) with the Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus), Thailand virus (THAIV) with the bandicoot rat (Bandicota indica), Puumala virus (PUUV) with the bank vole (Myodes glareolus, formerly Clethrionomys glareolus), Tula virus (TULV) with the European common vole (Microtus arvalis), Prospect Hill virus (PHV) with the meadow vole
The meadow vole
is commonly reported from the late Pleistocene of Texas (Dalquest & Schultz 1992).