Common Name
Eastern Harvest Mouse
Order
Rodentia
Family
Cricetidae
Species Name
Reithrodontomys humulis
Status
Lower Risk
States
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Distribution
SE USA, from E Oklahoma and E Texas eastwards to the Atlantic seaboard, from S Maryland to peninsular Florida
Notes
Feeds on small seeds of grasses and weeds, also moth larvae and insects. Makes a ball-shaped nest of grass and plant fibers in low vegetation. Lives in oldfields, waste ground, and ditches or other wet areas, also broom sedge and brier patches; seldom fou
Georgia
Readily climbs