A Study of the Food of Moles in Illinois

Abstract

This article looks at the stomach contents of moles to determine the natural food of the mole. The moles which furnished the basis for this discussion were in part specimens collected in central Illinois at various times, whose stomachs had been preserved with the material of the State Laboratory of Natural History without definite data as to the special situation in which the moles were found, but chiefly specimens recently collected, nearly all trapped in 1907 and 1908 by Mr. F. E. Wood, assistant in the State Laboratory of Natural History.