Squeak, squeak, squeak, was it a mouse or a vole (not to be confused with a mole) or a shrew? Upper Michigan is home to all three. Some people say “eeek” when they hear a squeak; they do not like the ...
The mice/Lyme theory is based on studies of animals caught in traps. But it turns out that shrews, moles, squirrels, chipmunks and other possible carriers of the bacteria that causes Lyme disease ...
They are not a mole, nor a mouse, nor a shrew. I don’t think I have ever seen a shrew, so I looked it up. Shrews use the tunnels that a vole or mole makes, and they are mouse-like. However ...
They eat everything from insects to seeds and small animals. Although they may look like mice or voles, shrews are not rodents. Instead, they are insectivores and related to moles and hedgehogs.
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