Show mole criminal the ground mole so often accused by the gardener of eating valuable bulbs and underground parts of plants is not so much the criminal as an accessory before the fact reports the federal bureau of biological survey with the exception of the townsend mole found along the pacific coast these burrowing animals live largely on underground insects grubs and larvae the myriad tunnels dug by the mole however often become runways for the small short tailed pine mice or in some instances the field or meadow mice these rodents are the real offenders they are vegetarians and eat roots and bulbs of garden plants |