Thank you, Judy, for the list of what eats voles, otherwise called dormice. I am remembering that the Romans also ate voles. They made clay pots about the size and shape of a bee skep, with an indoor spiral ramp like that of New York´s Guggenheim museum. Voles were kept in there and fed tasty herbs and spices, so that the carcasses would not have to be cleaned of bowel contents, and to improve the taste. Apparently voles are good when roasted. A lot of the bulb damage that voles do here in Massachusetts gets blamed erroneously on moles. Nobody eats moles, and apparently shrews taste nasty. I will never forget my mother-in-law phoning in tears when the voles got her Red Emperor tulips, half a lifetime ago in Pennsylvania. Jane _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/