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   The field voles from the Northern Spain look very particular, differrentiating themselves from the ones of their kind, because their features are not strong, emphasizing on their cylindrical dumpy body, short neck, wide snout with powerful jaws, with small legs to facilitate the motion within the galleries and a short tail adapted to life in the subsoil; the living rate is about 10 months, its length does not exceed 150 mm. including the tail and it weighs from 70 to 75 grams. Its morphology is not like that of a common mole, since its legs are not shovelled, and this is why it has to use its mouth to dig the tunnels when the soil is hard.
 

The voles are more alike mice than common moles.

   The weather affects the reproductive capacity, though the vole is active throughout the year. The female breeds every twenty-four days, with a lactation period of fifteen days, litters range in size from 3 to 10 young per litter and 6 litters throughout his life, so a couple could breed, if conditions are favourable, up to 13.000 individuals. The reproduction rate is so high in quite a short time that the proliferation of these moles may turn into a vole plague in the area.

    The voles are rodents whose food is essentially herbivorous - stems, fruits, roots, tubers, bulbs or the subterranean parts of the plants. They need moisty soils, in open places, but close to irrigated areas and with trees, their best areas are  meadows, scrub, and herbaceous plants cultivation. They avoid the lands with some humidity, flooded and trampled on by shepherding. They build their nests and food larder in underground galleries.
 

Voles have a great capacity of reproduction, turning into terrible plagues in a very short time.

    It is easy to locate these rodents by observing on the ground some piles placed next to the entrance of the burrow to protect it, the galleries where they build up the nest, the trace of their excrements at the mouth of the burrow, the gnawed at plants from which voles only eat the stem and not the leaves. When they gnaw the roots and the stems in the subsoil, the trees and shrubs dry producing a yellow colour in leaves.
 

 The holes in the soil and excrements around are clues of voles presence.

     In areas of Northern Spain, for the last decades there have been detected some damage produced by voles in cultivations of potatoes, beets, onions and carrots, but when there is a plague of voles and human resources fail this may affect tree areas by drying the roots with the consequence of the plant death. Voles are carriers of some parasites that cause various diseases such as viral diseases like Rabies or Hantavirus, bacterial diseases such as Leptospirosis, Borreliosis, or the most feared - Tuleramia, which produces skin ulceration and glandular swolling in men. The most common infection is through direct contact with rodents or their excrements and dust particles that were around the animal or its environment.

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