While we have several native species of mice in Massachusetts, we surprisingly have no native rats. Deer mice, white-footed mice, woodland jumping mice, meadow jumping mice, red-backed voles, meadow voles, woodland voles and bog lemmings scurry across the state. But we have to drive to the rocky cliffs of western Connecticut to find the closest native rat species, the eastern woodrat.Nevertheless, somewhere within walking distance of our homes are Old World brown rats. Although […]
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