Title: British Moles - Facts, Information & Habitat
Headings: British Moles
British Moles
Mole Description
Mole Habitats
Mole Diet
Mole Behaviour
Mole Reproduction
Mole Conservation Status

Content: A spherical ball located in the burrow in the centre of their territory is lined with dry grasses and leaves collected from the surface. Mole Diet
Moles are carnivores feeding almost exclusively small invertebrate animals living underground such as earthworms and the larvae of beetles and flies. A mole may also occasionally catch small mice at the entrance to its burrow. Because their saliva contains a toxin that can paralyze earthworms, moles are able to store their still living prey for later consumption. They construct special underground ‘larders’ for just this purpose. Researchers have discovered such larders with over a thousand earthworms in them. Before eating earthworms, moles pull them between their squeezed paws to force the collected earth and dirt out of the worms gut. Mole Behaviour
Moles sleep, feed and breed in their tunnels. Moles occasionally appear above ground at the top of one of their characteristic molehills, and even then usually only the head and pink fleshy snout is revealed. Moles have a well developed sense of orientation retaining a mental plan of their complex layout of underground tunnels.