Thanks, Ernie, for helping to put to rest the myth that Townsend's mole does not eat bulbs. Writing in a series of USDA bulletins early in the twentieth century, David Griffiths repeatedly included the moles of the Pacific Northwest among bulb predators. That information has been largely ignored for about eighty years. Jim McKenney Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where the local Scalopus aquaticus is evidently a true carnivore. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .