The hairy-tailed mole is about 15 cm (6 in.) long, with a short tail covered with stiff, grey hair. It is found in southwestern New Brunswick, through southern Quebec and Ontario, and in the northeastern United States.
Diet The hairy-tailed mole spends the day tunneling under the ground and searching for food. It sometimes comes out at night to search for food. It eats earthworms, grubs, beetles, ants and other invertebrates.
Hairy-tailed Mole
Order: Insectivora
Family: Talpidae
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Hairy-tailed Mole
Parascalops breweri
Northeastern, central and western Massachusetts. The putative type locality of "Martha's Vineyard" is undoubtedly erroneous.
hairy-tailed mole (Parascolops breweri)
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 See also: Mole, Earthworm, Shrew, Eastern Mole, Burro
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