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CURIOSITIES ABOUT VOLES.

    Nowadays due to climate change, with a frost decrease and a temperature increase during springtime, we experience a change in the habits and lifestyle of the species, facing authentic invasions by animals like voles generating a public health problem.
 

Voles plagues control and elimination is a public health problem .

• Distinction between mouse and mole: In everyday life we often use colloquial names to refer to certain species of animals, but a specialist calls them in more specific terms. The word mouse includes any small mammal with hair and pointed ears, which can move very quickly. They can be field mouse, house mouse, blond mouse  or even the seven species of voles living in the Iberian peninsula. On the other hand, genetically speaking, moles and voles present some differences, very recognizable at first sight; they also belong to different families and have a different habitat and food, as moles are insectivore and voles are herbivores. The most common characteristic of the two is that both dug galleries called mole-holes and thereby destroy the roots of the plants. The small earth piles on the surface clearly indicate that there are moles nearby.

• Who can transmit Tularemia? It is known that there are several ways of spreading the Tularemia bacterium among the human beings. The most common roads are: the infected animals contact with parts of our body, skin, mucus membranes or bloody membranes; an infected tick stick; getting in touch with infected ticks or flies fluids; by the excrements of the infected animals; touching or eating slightly cooked rabbit meat. The less common forms of being contaminated with Tularemia are drinking contaminated water, inhaling powder of contaminated earth or touching infected animals skins and legs. Tularemia does not transmit from person-to-person. Tularemia, scientifically called  "Francisella Turalensis" is a bacterial disease sufferred by hairy animals such as rabbits, rats, voles and transmitted to  human beings. Though many of the wild and domestic animals can be infected, the rabbit is more involved with the outbreaks of this disease.

Voles plagues can transmit many diseases in rural zones.

• Voles in Castilla y León: In Spain, in the region of Castilla y León these voles are very well known for the damage that recently caused in fields and crops; these kinds of "mice" devoured part of the cereal harvest and of the irrigation in this region. In the year 2006 this area suffered many losses in crops and damage in farmlands; this happened because people in the area hadn't used a useful pest plan and because the climatic change increased the temperature during that winter and spring. The indiscriminate enough fumigation done in spring decimated the hares, pigeons and protected birds population, but apparently it did not manage to exterminate the voles. Though some fields suffered the damage it was thought that when the winter would come and kill the voles and the following season would be a normal one. But the winter was so calm and mild that scarcely damaged these rodents. People increased the use of poisons to eliminate the voles, altering the autochthonous fauna. But the environmentalists' associations hit the ceiling and the pressure managed to cancel the campaign. The result: millions of rodents took possession of the fields being very difficult to eliminate.

The poison not only eliminates the voles, but other species, too.

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