Molehills. (Talpa europaea). Spoil soil on a cereal, arable field surface, creating a succession of mounds, each joined by a mole dug underground tunnel. Interrupting sprouting wheat seedlings.​


Mole hills. (Talpa europea). Spoil soil on a cereal, arable field surface, creating a succession of mounds, each joined by a mole dug underground tunnel whilst searching for invertebrate food items eg earthworms. Autumn sown wheat cereal crop infiltrated by a single mole. Ingham, Norfolk.


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