Meadow Vole.com is a site that focuses on Meadow Vole, also known as meadow mice or field mice depending upon what part of the world you live in. There are pages devoted to the classification and behaviour of the vole as well as pages that give useful advice on how to control vole populations and damage.

Meadow Vole, often called "meadow mice", occupy a wide variety of habitats, depending on the species. Generally, Meadow Vole prefer areas with heavy ground cover of grasses, grass-like plants, or litter. They are active both day and night and throughout the year. Meadow Vole eat a variety of plants and animals. They frequently forage on grasses, forbs, roots, bulbs, tubers, bark, snails, and insects. To find food, Meadow Vole construct tunnels and surface runways with many burrow openings. Several adults and young can live in these runway systems. This intricate network of tunnels and burrows provide Meadow Vole with excellent shelter from the weather and protection from predators. Meadow Vole store seeds and other plant matter in underground chambers.

Although Meadow Vole spend considerable time aboveground and may occasionally be seen scurrying about, most of their time is spent below ground in their burrow system. The clearest signs of their presence are the well-travelled, aboveground runways that connect burrow openings; the runways are usually hidden beneath a protective layer of grass or other ground cover. The maze of runways leads to multiple open burrows that are each about 11/2 to 2 inches in diameter. The runways are easily found by pulling back overhanging ground cover. Fresh clippings of green grass and greenish-color droppings about 3/16 inch long in the runways and near the burrows are further evidence of Meadow Vole.

Meadow Vole are poor climbers and do not usually enter homes or other buildings. Instead, they inhabit wild lands or croplands adjacent to buildings, or gardens and landscaped sites with protective ground cover. Most problems around homes and gardens occur during times of large meadow mouse populations. Meadow Vole usually live between 2 and 16 months. Their home ranges usually are less than 1/4 acre and vary with season, food supply and population density. Population densities of Meadow Vole vary from species to species. Large population fluctuations that range from 14 to 500 Meadow Vole per acre are common. Their numbers generally peak every 3 to 5 years. Factors that influence population levels include dispersal rates, food quality, climate, predation, physiological stress, and genetics.