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PLAGUE CONTROL OF VOLES.

   The voles peasants in northern Spain, has a very special aspect of its congeners by differentiating features very mild, stressing his body looking cylindrical Stocky, short neck, wide snout with powerful jaws, with little legs to ease the movement inside the galleries and a short tail adapted to life in the subsoil, the half-life is 10 months, its length does not exceed 150 mm. Including its tail and weighing 70 to 75 grams. Its morphology is not like a common mole, as it has no legs in the form of shovels, and is forced to use his mouth to make the tunnels when the soil is hard.
 

The voles have more similarity with the mice that with the common moles.

   The weather affects the reproductive capacity, but is active throughout the year. The female reproduces on the twenty-four days, giving them fifteen days of lactation, each birth the female it have 3 to 10 pups and 6 litters throughout his life, why a couple could raise if conditions are favourable to 13.000 individuals. The reproduction to be as high in a short time the proliferation of these moles may constitute an invasion in the area are recorded.

    The voles are some rodents whose food is essentially herbivorous, stems, fruits of the surface, roots, tubers, bulbs, subsoil of parts plants. Need some soil moisture, in places open, but close to irrigated areas and wooded, the its best areas it in the prairie with scrubland and fields of herbaceous. They prevent soil with some humidity, stagnant and trampled by grazing. They build their nests or dens and food pantries in underground galleries.
 

The voles have a great capacity of reproduction, turning into terrible plagues into a little time.

    For the location of these rodents is easy to observe on the ground piles placed next to the mouth of the burrow to protect it; galleries where they build up the nest; track of their excrement in the mouth of its burrow, also gnawed at plants where only eat the stem and not the leaves. At roer the roots and stems in the subsurface trees and shrubs dried producing a yellowing of the leaves.
 

 The holes in the soil and excrements around are indications of which they exist voles.

    Since a few decades ago are detecting in areas of northern Spain damage being done by voles in plant crops like potatoes, beets, onions and carrots, but when there is a plague of voles and human resources fail may affect areas of trees drying the roots with the consequence of the death of the plant. The voles are carriers of some parasites that generate various diseases such as viral diseases such as rabies or hantavirus, bacterial diseases such as leptospirosisi, borreliosis, or the most feared tuleramia, which produces ulceration of the skin and swollen gland in men. The most common infection is through direct contact with rodents or their droppings and dust particles that were around the animal or its environment.

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