The tunnels are only 2.5 to 10 cm below ground level. It then pushes back the dirt with its hind feet. It lives in a colony of several woodland voles. Together, the members of the colony can dig a whole network of tunnels. The woodland vole eats mostly roots and tubers.
Tubers are thick, nutritious roots.
The woodland vole also eats the leaves and stems of small plants on the forest floor. It stores much food for the winter in its many tunnels. If someone dropped an apple on the ground in the forest, the woodland vole would dig a tunnel under the apple and eat it from the bottom up. Usually a person or predator would not even see the vole having its dinner. Scientists know little about the mating or family life of this vole since it lives mostly underground.