Gopher tortoises tend to be solitary animals, but during the summer, they socialize because it’s mating season.

A gopher tortoise eats along on Inlet Drive on July 6, 2024. The threated species and its burrows are protected under Florida law.

All herbivores eat plants, and everybody poops,” says J.T. Pynne, a wildlife biologist at the Georgia Wildlife Federation in Covington who studies southeastern pocket gophers.

Gophers can be destructive, eating your plants and killing or stunting the growing of trees. Moles, however, are harmless and the most damage they do is to the aesthetics of yard as they leave ...

Q: I have had problems with gophers eating all my plants. We live next to a wild area, so there’s no easy way to exclude them. What should I plant that is drought-tolerant and won’t be eaten ...

Pocket gophers spend pretty much their entire lives underground, excavating multiple horizontal tunnels that run up to 160 m (525 ft) in length. Their diet consists mainly of plant roots, which ...

They are not very long in body, about 6-8 inches. Moles like to eat the worms, snails, slugs and insects underground; however, the tunneling disrupts plant roots, bulbs and grass.