Title: What Is a Vole as Compared to a Mole?
Headings: The Difference Between a Mole and a Vole
The Difference Between a Mole and a Vole
Differences
Do Moles and Voles Eat Plants?
Similar Animals

Content: Another dead giveaway to identify a mole is its big forefeet (used in digging). Do Moles and Voles Eat Plants? The preferred diet of the mole is a carnivorous one. The mole will eat worms, grubs, and adult insects. They are not rodents, which, having a vegetarian diet, often attack our garden plants. So if a pest is taking bites out of your plants, you can rule out moles. But rodents do exploit mole tunnels to get underneath your plants and gnaw at their roots, so moles can play a role in plant damage, even though they do not eat plants. The vole, by contrast, is a rodent. A vole will gnaw at the base of a tree or shrub, especially in winter. Thus, metal guards are sold to prevent such vole damage.