#myodes

Bank Vole (Myodes glareolus), family Cricetidae, found over most of Europe and of NW Asia

Western Red-backed Vole Myodes californicus

It is found in California and Oregon in the United States and lives mainly in coniferous forest. The western red-backed vole lives largely underground in an extensive system of burrows. It feeds primarily on fruiting bodies of hypogeous fungi.

It has been found that in a clear-cut forest where all the dead wood and trimmings are removed, the mycorrhiza stops fruiting, the vole population dies out and newly planted trees fail to thrive. This is an example of a three way symbiosis, as the vole gains food from the fungus and spreads its spores, and the fungus gains photosynthetic products from the tree which benefits from the nutrients produced by the fungus.

A bank vole (Myodes glareolus) in Gothenberg, Sweden

Bank vole (Myodes glareolus)

Korean Red-backed Vole Myodes regulus

Also known as the royal vole, they are endemic to the Korean peninsula. They live underground in a burrow, emerging at night to feed on grasses, seeds and other vegetation.

Bank vole (Myodes glareolus)

No leps, but cute too: Myodes glareolus. However be cautious, they can carry Hantavirus, which can cause lethal infection.

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